num_pages: 144
description: With his unique knack for making cutting-edge theoretical science effortlessly accessible, world-renowned physicist Paul Davies now tackles an issue that has boggled minds for Is time travel possible? The answer, insists Davies, is definitely yes—once you iron out a few kinks in the space-time continuum. With tongue placed firmly in cheek, Davies explains the theoretical physics that make visiting the future and revisiting the past possible, then proceeds to lay out a four-stage process for assembling a time machine and making it work. Wildly inventive and theoretically sound, How to Build a Time Machine is creative science at its best—illuminating, entertaining, and thought provoking.
language: English
title: How to Build a Time Machine
titlecomplete: How to Build a Time Machine
characters: Frank J. Tipler, Ludwig Flamm, Nathan Rosen, Isaac Newton, Kingsley Amis, Plato, Carl Sagan, Max Planck, Ray Bradbury, Roy Kerr, J. Richard Gott, Martin Kruskal, Stephen Hawking, Hendrik Casimir, Joseph C. Hafele, David Deutsch, Kurt Gödel, Adolf Hitler, J.B.S. Haldane, Hugh Everett, W.G. Unruh, Michael Crichton, Roger Penrose, Euclid, Albert Einstein, George Szekeres, T.S. Eliot, H.G. Wells, Karl Schwarzschild, Kip Thorne, Richard E. Keating, Jodie Foster, Galileo Galilei
genres: Physics, Self Help, Philosophy, Science, Travel, Time Travel, Space, Nonfiction, Mathematics, Popular Science
ratings_count: 1249
publisher: Penguin Books