Human beings have a strong desire to travel through time. Although scientists are not yet taking out patents on a time machine, they are investigating whether it is possible under the laws of physics. In Newton's three-dimensional world this would have been inconceivable. But with Einstein's theory of relativity a fourth dimension time enters the frame. Is it really inconceivable that we can travel along the timeline? In this book Richard Gott offers an intellectually expansive, witty and engaging study of the viability of time travel, which takes us from the dream of time travel itself in H. G. Wells's path-breaking novel THE TIME MACHINE to cutting-edge research into astrophysics and quantum teleportation. He explores the scientific, social and moral implications of time travel, and looks at recent remarkable experiments in which fundamental particles were actually sent into the future.
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Richard Gott is Professor of Astrophysics at Princeton University and has written on time travel and other subjects for Time, Scientific American, New Scientist and Nature. He is one of the world's experts on parallel universes, string theories and cosmic origins.
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Much more than hogwash,
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This review is from: Time Travel in Einstein's Universe (Paperback)
This book is a thoughtful introduction to a subject which is both interesting as well as thorny. I found the author's description of his subject to be logical and clear, helped along by some excellent diagrams. Maybe not for you if you are convinced that the world is flat, but if you are interested this is definately a worthwhile read.
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Total Hogwash,
This review is from: Time Travel in Einstein's Universe (Paperback)
The back of the book first got me interested. Even the first few chapters seemed very convincing. But at one point I began to realize that Gott had lost his mind. He gets to a point where he talks about being able to travel to the past and even meet yourself and he even implies that you could interact with yourself. I am really suprised that this guy, who is an authority on time travel, actually believes that bunk. He fails to realize that there is a difference between light and matter. Whenever you view anything from the past, including stars millions of light years away, that is all they are - light and nothing more. It isn't physical matter. You cannot go back in time and talk with yourself as Gott suggests. Your physical atomic matter exists in only one place at one time. When confronted with how the universe started, Gott simply states, "it started on its own". They teach you in grade school that matter cannot be created nor destroyed, and here we have the same old contradictory argument. Once Gott lost sight of this simple principle, the remainder of the book became a fairy tale not worth one's time reading. Give it up Gott. God created the universe and mankind. We didn't evolve from monkeys, like you suggest.
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