Time machines
Subtitle: time travel in physics, metaphysics, and science fiction
By: Paul J. Nahin.
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Literature and science -- English-speaking countries.; Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.; Time travel in literature.; Metaphysics in literature.; Physics in literature.
Description: "Time Machines explores the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Godel, and others; scientific hypotheses about the direction of time, reversed time, and multidimensional time; time-travel paradoxes, and much more." "Time Machines is highly readable even for those with no physics background. The text contains no equations or higher calculus: All the mathematics are contained in appendices that require nothing beyond differential and integral calculus. Time Machines contains the most extensive bibliography available on the fictional and scientific literature of time travel."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-402) and index.