This Book is From the Future: A Journey Through Portals, Relativity, Worm Holes, and Other Adventures in Time Travel [Paperback]

Marie Jones (Author), Larry Flaxman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 22, 2012 | ISBN-10: 1601631502 | ISBN-13: 978-1601631503 | Edition: 1

"From pop culture fantasies to wild conspiracy theories to the latest scientific thinking, This Book Is From the Future is a fascinating exploration of our collective obsession with time. Jones and Flaxman cover the subject from just about every angle, with a dash of humor and the serious scientific curiosity it deserves."
--Stephen Wagner, About.com Paranormal Guide

"It is a very engaging read about how time travel has captured our imaginations and how today's scientists are taking the subject very seriously. Written in a friendly newsy way...You will find a number of surprising discoveries awaiting you."
--Fred Alan Wolf, PhD, aka Dr. Quantum, author of Time Loops and Space Twists and The Yoga of Time Travel

The idea of time travel has tantalized humans for millennia. We can send humans into space, but roaming through time has eluded us. Do the laws of physics demand that we stay forever trapped in the present?

This Book Is From the Future will explore:

Time travel theories and machines of the past, present, and future.

Time and the multiverse: why wormholes, parallel universes, and extra dimensions might allow for time travel.

The paranormal aspects of time: Might we already be "mentally" time traveling?

Mysterious time shifts, slips, and warps that people are reporting all over the world. Are we experiencing coexisting timelines?

Time travel conspiracy theories: Are we already walking among real time travelers? Has a real time machine already been created in a top-secret

government facility?

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Marie D. Jones and Larry Flaxman are the best-selling authors of 11:11 - The Time Prompt Phenomenon; The Trinity Secret; and The Déjà vu Enigma. They are also screenwriters, researchers, and popular public speakers who have been interviewed on television and radio shows all over the world, including the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and Coast to Coast AM Radio. They are currently staff writers for Intrepid Magazine, and regular contributors to New Dawn Magazine. They can be reached via www.paraexplorers.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: New Page Books; 1 edition (July 22, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601631502
• ISBN-13: 978-1601631503
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #465,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #67 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Physics > Time

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Primer On the Practicalities Of Implementing Time Travel June 25, 2012

By Dr. Joseph S. Maresca HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWER

Format:Paperback

This Book Is From The Future-A Journey Through Portals,
Relativity, Worm Holes by Marie D. Jones and Larry Flaxman
explores the history and science of time travel, wormholes,
parallel universes, time warps and coexisting timelines.
The book begins by defining time from years to the yoctosecond
which is beyond the shortest time measurable by any current
machine or process.

The authors explain that entropy does not work in reverse.
The forward arrow of time increases entropy but time does
not flow in the reverse direction. A hot pot of water gets
cold due to entropy but a cold pot of water cannot get hot
without some other interfering factor not in the original
equation.

Jones and Flaxman explain how Godel worked with
Albert Einstein to formulate a theory that time travel
into the past was possible provided that the universe
was rotating. Godel hypothesized riding a circular or
spiral path allowing him to go back to the past and
return to the present. Physicists would later argue
that Godel's universe, if finite, would remove the
time travel aspect completely making everyone more
comfortable with the theory.

The book depicts the Lorenztian wormhole pictorially
and explains that the black hole would be the entry
point with the white hole as an exit point. The practical
implementation problem is that entering into a black hole
will meet with infinite gravity and be crushed or stretched
into nothingness or an incomprehensible gravitational
effect.

The Casimir effect proved that negative energy densities can
happen in nature. Logically, this negative energy density could
be the mechanism needed to stabilize the entry point of a
wormhole long enough to travel safely through without being
torn apart from the tremendous forces within.

Steven Hawking hypothesized about building a time machine.
"All you need is a wormhole, the Large Hadron Collider,
or a rocket that goes really, really fast."

The authors take us back to the most famous time slip.
Charlette Anne Mobley and Eleanor Jordain (two educators)
allegedly had a time slip in the gardens of Versailles in 1901.
The two educators were looking for a path that lead to
Petit Trianon, the private palace of Marie Antoinette when
they found themselves transported literally back in time.
The people around them appeared to be frozen in time. There
were no effects of light and shade. No wind stirred the trees.
At one point,the women rounded a building and returned to the
normal state.

This Book Is From The Future-A Journey Through Portals,
Relativity, Worm Holes by Marie D. Jones and Larry Flaxman
is a fascinating entry into the potential world of time
travel. The book is well researched with proponents on both
sides of the feasibility argument. The contents of this work
will provide rigorous debate over the notion of time travel
until working models are built and tested in the coming years.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Badly written/Boring September 7, 2012

By Susan Gayle

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

This book is not well written. On almost every page, an idea is mentioned and then we are told that they will discuss this at a later chapter. This is constant! Any writing textbook will tell you that this is bad writing. Don't bring it up until you are ready to discuss it. Also, the text has many LONG lists of movies or TV shows that talked about time travel. Who cares? This is not giving me any information I can use, or expanding my knowledge. I got a little more than 1/3 through this book and gave up. Not worth reading.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible, awful, idiotic book. March 9, 2013

By Elliott

Format:Paperback

Great topic. Too bad it was written for fourth graders. Well, actually written BY fourth graders. Bad writing, terrible editing, typos everywhere. Ideas don't follow through. Science is mixed up with and confused by "science". The "guest writers" are even worse. I could go on and on. I might detail the horrors of this mega-piece later, but trust me, it's a jaw-dropping creation of stupidity.