Time travel and warp drives
Subtitle: a scientific guide to shortcuts through time and space
By: Allen Everett and Thomas Roman
Contributors: Roman, Thomas
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780226224985
Subjects: Time travel; Space and time
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Time, clocks, and reference frames; title: Lorentz transformations and special relativity; title: The light cone; title: Forward time travel and the twin "paradox"; title: "Forward, into the past"; title: The arrow of time; title: General relativity: curved space and warped time; title: Wormholes and warp bubbles: beating the light barrier and possible; title: Time machines; title: Banana peels and parallel worlds; title: "Don't be so negative": exotic matter; title: "To boldly go . . ."?; title: Cylinders and strings; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix 1. Derivation of the Galilean velocity transformation; title: Appendix 2. Derivation of the Lorentz transformations; title: Appendix 3. Proof of the invariance of the spacetime interval; title: Appendix 4. Argument to show the orientation of the axes relative to the axes; title: Appendix 5. Time dilation via light clocks; title: Appendix 6. Hawking's theorem; title: Appendix 7. Light pipe in the Mallett time machine.