The Time Machine Hypothesis Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction /

• Main Author: Broderick, Damien (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Science and Fiction,
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Literature.; Fiction.; Popular Science in Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Popular Science in Literature.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter and virtual-reality e...

Table of Contents:

• PART ONE: Spacetime Time
• Time Travel Unraveled
• The Scientific Basis for Time Machines
• Closed Timelike Loops
• Don't Change the Past
• PART TWO: Time Machine Time
• The First Half Century (and a bit)
• Empires of Time
• Behold the Time Machine
• Time's Up
• Highways to the End of Time
• Windows Into the Past
• From Dinosaurs to Elsewhen
• Looping Time
• PART THREE: A Thought Experiment is Not a Theory
• In Search of Lost Time Machines
• Appendix: "The Dry Sauvages". .