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Overview"IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME.... Once widely considered an impossibility--the stuff of science fiction novels--time travel may finally be achieved in the twenty-first century. In Breaking the Time Barrier, bestselling author Jenny Randles reveals the nature of recent, breakthrough experiments that are turning this fantasy into reality. The race to build the first time machine is a fascinating saga that began about a century ago, when scientists such as Marconi and Edison and Einstein carried out research aimed at producing a working time machine. Today, physicists are conducting remarkable experiments that involve slowing the passage of information, freezing light, and breaking the speed of light--and thus the time barrier. In the 1960s we had the ""space race."" Today, there is a ""time race"" involving an underground community of working scientists who are increasingly convinced that a time machine of some sort is finally possible. Here, Randles explores the often riveting motives of the people involved in this quest (including a host of sincere, if sometimes misguided amateurs), the consequences for society should time travel become a part of everyday life, and what evidence might indicate that it has already become reality. For, if time travel is going to happen--and some Russian scientists already claim to have achieved it in a lab--then its effects may already be apparent." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jenny RandlesPublisher: Simon & Schuster Imprint: Gallery Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.309kg ISBN: 9780743492591ISBN 10: 0743492595 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 18 July 2005 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Preface: The Day that Time Stood Still Introduction: The Race Pre-1895: The Dawn of Time 1895: The First Time Traveler 1905: Relatively Speaking 1919: Bending Space and Time 1926: Other Dimensions 1935: Bridges Across Time 1937: Travel into the Future 1949: Time Travel into the Past 1963: Black Holes 1973: Back from the Future 1983: The Time Mirror 1984: Entangled Time 1988: Wormholes 1992: Chronology Protection 1994: Strings Attached 1996: Cheating Gravity 1997: Many Worlds, Many Timelines 1998: Quantum Foam 1999: Kaku's Time Machine 2000: Faster than Light 2001: Handshakes from the Future 2002: Twisting Time 2003: Beam Me Up 2004: Chrononauts Epilogue: Beyond Time's Last Frontier Appendix: Does Evidence of Time Travel Already Exist? References IndexReviewsAuthor InformationJenny Randles, who specialized in physics and geology at university, has sold more than one and a half million copies of her fifty published books. She has written articles for such journals as New Scientist, and lives in North Wales. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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