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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Damien BroderickPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2019 Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9783030161774ISBN 10: 3030161773 Pages: 243 Publication Date: 17 July 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPART ONE: Spacetime Time.- Time Travel Unraveled.- The Scientific Basis for Time Machines.- Closed Timelike Loops.- Don’t Change the Past.- PART TWO: Time Machine Time.- The First Half Century (and a bit).- Empires of Time.- Behold the Time Machine.- Time’s Up.- Highways to the End of Time.- Windows Into the Past.- From Dinosaurs to Elsewhen.- Looping Time.- PART THREE: A Thought Experiment is Not a Theory.- In Search of Lost Time Machines.- Appendix: “The Dry Sauvages”.ReviewsThe Time Machine Hypothesis captures the wonder that so many readers of sf feel when they first learn that scientists in the real world actually do study the possibility of time travel and that there may be something to these fantastic stories after all. (James Hamby, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 47, November, 2020) Author InformationDamien Broderick is an award-winning novelist, critic and theorist who holds a doctorate in the comparative discourse analysis of the sciences and humanities. He has published 75 books, some of them collaboratively or as editor. An Australian, he currently lives in San Antonio, Texas. His latest book is Consciousness and Science Fiction, also from Springer. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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