The time machine hypothesis : extreme science meets science fiction
- 作者： Broderick, Damien, author.
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- Science and fiction.
- 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer
- 叢書名： Science and fiction,
- 主題： Time travel. , Space and time. , Time travel in literature. , Space and time in literature. , Science fiction--History and criticism. , Popular Science in Physics. , Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics. , Popular Science in Literature. , Fiction. , History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.
- ISBN： 9783030161781 (electronic bk.) 、 9783030161774 (paper)
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FIND@SFXID:
CGU
- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: PART 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".
- 摘要註: Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter and virtual-reality entertainment so brilliant that the division between real and simulated is hard to discern. But one new idea from the 19th century has failed, so far, to enter reality-time travel, using machines to turn the time dimension into a two-way highway. Will it come true, as foreseen in science fiction? Might we expect visits to and from the future, sooner than from space? That is the Time Machine Hypothesis, examined here by futurist Damien Broderick, an award-winning writer and theorist of the genre of the future. Broderick homes in on the topic through the lens of science as well as fiction, exploring some fifty different time-travel scenarios and conundrums found in the science fiction literature and film.
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Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter and virtual-reality entertainment so brilliant that the division between real and simulated is hard to discern. But one new idea from the 19th century has failed, so far, to enter reality—time travel, using machines to turn the time dimension into a two-way highway. Will it come true, as foreseen in science fiction? Might we expect visits to and from the future, sooner than from space? That is the Time Machine Hypothesis, examined here by futurist Damien Broderick, an award-winning writer and theorist of the genre of the future. Broderick homes in on the topic through the lens of science as well as fiction, exploring some fifty different time-travel scenarios and conundrums found in the science fiction literature and film.