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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 530.11 EAN: 9780393324464 ISBN: 039332446X Label: W. W. Norton & Company Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2003-06 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Studio: W. W. Norton & Company Editorial Review: Product Description: Where the science of black holes, gravitational waves, and time travel will likely lead us, as reported by spacetime's most important theoreticians and observers. Our minds tell us that some things in the universe must be true. The New Physics tells us that they are not, and in the process, blurs the line between science and science fiction. Here are six accessible essays by those who walk that line, moving ever further out in discovering the patterns of nature, aimed at readers who share their fascination with the deepest mysteries of the universe. • Richard Price: "An Introduction to Spacetime Physics" • Stephen Hawking: "Chronology Protection" • Igor Novikov: "Can We Change the Past?" • Kip S. Thorne: "Speculations about the Future" • Timothy Ferris: "On the Popularization of Science" • Alan Lightman: "The Physicist as Novelist" Average Rating:
 Rating: - The State of Real Time TravelA series of essays on the concept of Time in current Theoretical Physics. The papers were presented in 2000 following a tradition within the community of Physics. These topics honor Kip Thorne on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Thorne has investigated the possibility of actual time travel in current concept of Spacetime. Igor Novikov provides arguments for the possibility of travel to the past, but concludes that it is impossible to change the past, which has already happened, ... Read More Rating: - Interesting thinking on the edge of knowledgeThis a book derived from 5 physicists who gave a discourse to honor Kip Thorne on his 60th birthday. If you're interested in the musings of some of the greatest minds in science, this is an excellent book. Absent is the mathematics that gives substance to the thoughts, which makes this subject very approachable to the lay audience. The topics are far ranging in the field of physics and the discussions are beyond the edge of what is currently provable. This is the area of where knowledge ... Read More Rating: - Is time-travel possible?----------------------------------------------------------- This slim volume consists of six essays, based on talks presented at the Kipfest [note 1] on the occasion of Kip Thorne's sixtieth birthday. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Physics at Caltech Physicist Richard ... Read More Rating: - Sorry, grandma, I won't be seeing you again anytime soon.Time travel appears pretty impractical based on this book. Maybe it's mathematically possible to fold time and punch wormholes in it in theory, but I don't think NASA or Greyhound is going to be offering trips back and forth through our lives. However, it's always intriguing to read what really smart people come up with, because they make a lot of it seem so obvious, even though I could never come up with it on my own. Rating:  - GarbageIt is incredible how they trust blindly in EVERY aspect of General Relativity. Space-time warpages and singularities happens ONLY in mathematics! There is no way out. It is funny how Scientific American gives credibility to such a kind of science-fiction. It is time to stop lying to the public! Hawking and Thorne, grasp it: Time-travel is physically IMPOSSIBLE. |
