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Author Nahin, Paul J., author

Title Time travel : a writer's guide to the real science of plausible time travel, with a new preface / Paul J. Nahin
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 200 pages) : illustrations
Contents Time travel in the pulps -- Special relativity and time travel in the future -- Time travel to the past -- Hyperspace -- Time as the fourth dimension -- The block universe -- When general relativity made time travel honest -- Paradoxes: changing the past, causal loops, and sex -- Time machines that 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
Analysis Originally published: Cincinnati : Writer's Digest Books, 1997
"Multi-User"
Notes OldControl:muse9781421401201
Originally published: Cincinnati : Writer's Digest Books, 1997
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index
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Subject Fourth dimension.
Time travel in literature.
Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Science fiction -- Authorship
Fourth dimension
Science fiction -- Authorship
Time travel in literature
Zeitreise.
Motiv.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781421401201
1421401207