Time Machine Tales The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel /

• Main Author: Nahin, Paul J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Science and Fiction,
• Subjects: Popular works.; Philosophy and science.; Gravitation.; Physics.; Philosophy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Physics.; Popular Science in Philosophy.; Philosophy of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

This book contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author's earlier books on th...

Table of Contents:

• Some First Words
• Introduction
• A Broad Look At Time Travel
• Philosophical Space and Time
• The Physics of Time Travel —Part I.-Philosophers, Physicists, and the Time Travel Paradoxes
• Communication With the Past
• The Physics of Time Travel —Part II
• Epilogue
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3
• Glossary
• Index. .