Time Travel and Warp Drives A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts Through Time and Space

Name: Time Travel and Warp Drives A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts Through Time and Space
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ISBN: 9780226045481

ISBN-10: 022604548X

ISBN-13: 9780226045481

Edition: 2013

Authors: Allen Everett, Thomas Roman

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Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it starts. But for those of us not lucky enough to live in a science-fictional universe, are these ideas merely flights of fancy—or could it really be possible to travel through time or take shortcuts between stars?Cutting-edge physics may not be able to answer those questions yet, but it does offer up some tantalizing possibilities. InTime Travel and Warp Drives, Allen Everett and Thomas A. Roman take readers on a clear, concise tour of our current understanding…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 6.65" wide x 8.86" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.836



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



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



Derivation of the Galilean Velocity Transformations



Derivation of the Lorentz Transformations



Proof of the Invariance of the Spacetime Interval



Argument to Show the Orientation of the x',t' Axes Relative to the x,t Axes



Time Dilation via Light Clocks



Hawking's Theorem



Light Pipe in the Mallett Time Machine


Bibliography


Index