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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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4 editions · 2 languages- Paperback · EnglishSPRINGER · 9780387952222
- Other · English · 2001American Institute of Physics · 628 pages · 9780387985718
- Other · English · 1993American Institute of Physics · 408 pages · 9780883189351
- Other · UND · 1994American Mathematical Society · 408 pages · 9781563963711
History and criticismAmerican Science fictionEnglish Science fictionMetaphysics in literatureLiterature and sciencePhysics in literatureTime travel in literatureMetafysica