The cosmic dancers
Subtitle: exploring the physics of science fiction
By: by Amit Goswami, with Maggie Goswami.
Contributors: Goswami, Maggie.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Science -- Popular works; Physics -- Popular works; Science fiction -- History and criticism; Cosmology in literature
Description: You may not qualify as a scientist, but you love reading science fiction and are intrigued by problems of time, space, mind, and reality. You'd like nothing better than to explore the solar system, travel to the stars, and really penetrate the mysteries of hyperspace, curved space, black holes, and supernovae. The Cosmic Dancers will take you through the most challenging concepts of modern physics with the aid of examples from such masters of science fiction as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg, and Ursula K. Le Guin, not to mention their predecessors H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Cyrano de Bergerac.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 277-281.
Includes index.