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Time travel and warp drives : a scientific guide to shortcuts through time and space / Allen Everett and Thomas Roman.
- Description: xi, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- ISBN: 9780226224985 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0226224988 (cloth : alk. paper)
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- 5 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).
Current holds
0 current holds with 5 total copies.
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danvers | Adult Nonfiction | QC 173.59 S65 E94 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Gloucester | Adult Nonfiction | 530.11/Everett (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Peabody Main | Adult Nonfiction | NEW QC 173.59 .S65 E94 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Phillips OWHL | Stacks 4 | 530.11 EV26T (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Swampscott | Thomson Room | 530.11 Ev (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Contents: | Time, clocks, and reference frames -- Lorentz transformations and special relativity -- The light cone -- Forward time travel and the twin "paradox" -- "Forward, into the past" -- The arrow of time -- General relativity: curved space and warped time -- Wormholes and warp bubbles: beating the light barrier and possible -- Time machines -- Banana peels and parallel worlds -- "Don't be so negative": exotic matter -- "To boldly go . . ."? -- Cylinders and strings -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Derivation of the Galilean velocity transformation -- Appendix 2. Derivation of the Lorentz transformations -- Appendix 3. Proof of the invariance of the spacetime interval -- Appendix 4. Argument to show the orientation of the axes relative to the axes -- Appendix 5. Time dilation via light clocks -- Appendix 6. Hawking's theorem -- Appendix 7. Light pipe in the Mallett time machine. |
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