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Time machinesPaul J. Nahin
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Time machines

518 pagesFirst published 19934 editions · 2 languages
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"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…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionAmerican Institute of Physics20016289780387985718
Edition · undAmerican Mathematical Society19944089781563963711
EditionAmerican Institute of Physics19934089780883189351
PaperbackSPRINGER——9780387952222
History and criticismAmerican Science fictionEnglish Science fictionMetaphysics in literatureLiterature and sciencePhysics in literatureTime travel in literatureMetafysica