Time : a traveler's guide / Clifford A. Pickover.
Time : a traveler's guide / Clifford A. Pickover.
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Publisher
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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T0386419
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Language
English
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Physical content
xviii, 285 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. The Relativity of Simultaneity -- 2. Building an Einstein-Langevin Clock -- 3. The Lorentz Transformation -- 4. The Brain's Time Machine -- 5. Here-Now and Elsewhere in Spacetime -- 6. Three Important Rules for Time Travelers -- 7. Your Space or Mine? -- 8. How to Time Travel into the Future -- 9...
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Publisher
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1998.
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Summary
In Time: A Traveler's Guide, Pickover takes readers to the forefront of science as he illuminates the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe - time itself. Is time travel possible? Is time real? Does it flow in one direction only? Does it have a beginning and an end? What is eternity? Pickover includes numerous diagrams so readers have no troub...
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Time : a traveler's guide / Clifford A. Pickover.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-263) and index.
Transferred from N530.11/96.
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T0386419
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74VMyDRw3Qlg
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ISBN
0195130960(pbk.) :
9780195120424 (alk. paper)
0195120426 (alk. paper)
9780195130966(pbk.) :
DDC
530.11
MMS ID
991001947939702626
