Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines

Name: Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781439885598

ISBN-10: 1439885591

ISBN-13: 9781439885598

Edition: 2nd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Jim Al-Khalili

List price: $38.99

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Semester Rental: $34.23 Due date: 8/14/2024

Rental notice: supplementary materials (access codes, CDs, etc.) are not guaranteed with rental orders.

Buy new: $45.57

Marketplace

3 new & used from $23.54

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Do you know: What might happen if you fall into a black hole? That the Universe does not have an edge? That the reason it gets dark at night is proof of the Big Bang? That cosmic particles time-travel through the atmosphere defying death? That our past, present and future might all coexist "out there"? With two remarkable ideas, Albert Einstein revolutionized our view of the Universe. His first was that nothing can travel faster than light-the ultimate speed limit. This simple fact leads to the unavoidable conclusion that space and time must be linked together forever as Spacetime. With his second monumental insight, Einstein showed how Spacetime is warped and stretched by the gravity of…

Book details

List price: $38.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 1/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 206
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Dr Jim al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist and senior lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of Surrey. He has twice been nominated for the Royal Society#39;s Michael Faraday Award for the Public Understanding of Science and is the Institute of Physics Schools and Colleges lecturer. He is the author of BLACK HOLES, WORMHOLES AND TIME MACHINES and has appeared on Radio 4#39;s LEADING EDGE and the BBC#39;s TOMORROW#39;S WORLD and HORIZON programmes.



Space


The 4th Dimension


To do with shapes


What is space?


2Dworld and 2D'ers


Curved space


Is there really a 4th dimension?


Matters of Some Gravity


Apples and moons


Einstein's gravity


Free fall


Rubber space


Twinkle, twinkle


Cooking the elements


Champagne supernova in the sky


The Universe


The night sky


How big is the Universe?


The expanding Universe


Hubble, bubble …


Space is stretching


Did the Big Bang really happen?


The edge of space


A closed universe


An open universe


What shape is the Universe then?


Invisible matter 1998 a big year in cosmology


Is the Universe infinite?


Why is it dark at night?


Before the Big Bang?


Summary


Black Holes


More to light than meets the eye!


Invisible stars


Beyond the horizon


A hole that can never be filled


Spinning black holes


Falling into a black hole


To see a black hole


Not so black after all


White holes


TIME


Times Are Changing


What is time?


Who invented time?


The first moment


Does time flow?


Something called entropy


Arrows of time


Stephen Hawking gets it wrong


A possible solution


Einstein's Time


What is so special about special relativity?


The two faces of light


Thought experiments and brain-teasers


Slowing down time


Shrinking distances


Light-the world speed record


When time runs backwards


Little green men


Fast-forward to the future


Spacetime-the future is out there


Gravitational times


Time Travel Paradoxes


The Terminator paradox


Trying to save the dinosaurs


Mona Lisa's sister


No way out?


Parallel universes


Where are all the time travelers?


TIME MACHINES


Wormholes


A bridge to another world


Alice through the looking glass


When science fact met science fiction


Wormholes-keeping the star gate open


Visiting a parallel universe


How to Build a Time Machine


Time loops


The Tipler time machine


Cosmic string time machines


A recipe for a wormhole time machine


Insurmountable problems?


What Do We Know?


The mother of all theories


The end of theoretical physics


What might new experiments tell us?


Astronomy versus astrology


The fascination of science


Suggestions for Further Reading


Index