Time travel a writer's guide to the real science of plausible time travel / [electronic resource] :
- 作者： Nahin, Paul J.
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- 出版： Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
- 主題： Fourth dimension. , Time travel in literature , Science fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc , Science fiction--Authorship
- ISBN： 9781421401201 (electronic bk.) 、 1421401207 (electronic bk.) 、 9781421400822 (pbk.) 、 1421400820 (pbk.)
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- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-197) and index. Time travel in the pulps -- Special relativity and time travel in the future -- Time travel to the past -- Hyperspace -- Time as the fourthdimension -- The block universe -- When general relativity made time travel honest -- Paradoxes: changing the past, causal loops, and sex -- Time machinesthat physicists have already 'invented' -- Faster-than-light (FTL) into the past -- Quantum gravity, splitting universes, and time machines -- Reading the physics literature for story ideas. Originally published: Cincinnati : Writer's Digest Books, 1997.
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- 系統號： 005103850 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
From H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov to Ursula K. Le Guin, time travel has long been a favorite topic and plot device in tales of science fiction and fantasy. But as any true SF fan knows, astounding stories about traversing alternate universes and swimming the tides of time demand plausible science. That’s just what Paul J. Nahin’s guide provides. An engineer, physicist, and published science fiction writer, Nahin is uniquely qualified to explain the ins and outs of how to spin such complex theories as worm holes, singularity, and relativity into scientifically sound fiction. First published in 1997, this fast-paced book discusses the common and not-so-common time-travel devices science fiction writers have used over the years, assesses which would theoretically work and which would not, and provides scientific insight inventive authors can use to find their own way forward or backward in time. From hyperspace and faster-than-light travel to causal loops and the uncertainty principle and beyond, Nahin’s equation-free romp across time will help writers send their characters to the past or future in an entertaining, logical, and scientific way. If you ever wanted to set up the latest and greatest grandfather paradox—or just wanted to know if the time-bending events in the latest pulp you read could ever happen—then this book is for you.