عنوان

Time travel and warp drives :

شابک

0226224988 (cloth : alk. paper)

شابک

9780226224985 (cloth : alk. paper)

شماره

b533620

عنوان اصلي

Time travel and warp drives :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

a scientific guide to shortcuts through time and space /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Allen Everett and Thomas Roman

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

London :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

The University of Chicago Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2012

نام خاص و کميت اثر

268 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill. ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

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

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

Presents the current understanding of the nature of time and space, and an approachable explanation of Einstein's theory of special relativity; then goes on to connect these to possible time travel along with the accompanying paradoxes involved

موضوع مستند نشده

Space and time

موضوع مستند نشده

Time travel

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Everett, Allen

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Roman, Thomas

تاريخ عمليات

20120525100838.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y