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The University of Chicago Press
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Time travel, Space and time

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Time Travel and Warp Drives: A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space
Apr 09, 2013, University of Chicago Press
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Time Travel and Warp Drives: a Scientific Guide to Shortcuts Through Time and Space
2012, University of Chicago Press
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Time travel and warp drives: a scientific guide to shortcuts through time and space
2012, The University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

Time, clocks, and reference frames
Lorentz transformations and special relativity
The light cone
Forward time travel and the twin "paradox"
"Forward, into the past"
The arrow of time
General relativity: curved space and warped time
Wormholes and warp bubbles: beating the light barrier and possible
Time machines
Banana peels and parallel worlds
"Don't be so negative": exotic matter
"To boldly go . . ."?
Cylinders and strings
Epilogue
Appendix 1. Derivation of the Galilean velocity transformation
Appendix 2. Derivation of the Lorentz transformations
Appendix 3. Proof of the invariance of the spacetime interval
Appendix 4. Argument to show the orientation of the axes relative to the axes
Appendix 5. Time dilation via light clocks
Appendix 6. Hawking's theorem
Appendix 7. Light pipe in the Mallett time machine.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
530.11
Library of Congress
QC173.59.S65 E94 2012, QC173.59.S65E94 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL24886050M
Internet Archive
timetravelwarpdr00ever
ISBN 10
0226224988
ISBN 13
9780226224985
LCCN
2011025250
OCLC/WorldCat
711050941

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