Time Machine Tales : The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017
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This book contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author's earlier books on the subject. In that spirit there are, for example, no Tech Notes filled with algebra, integrals, and differential equations, as there are in the first and second editions of TIME MACHINES. Writing ...; [leggi tutto]
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| Descrizione | Time Machine Tales : The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel / by Paul J. Nahin. - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017. - XLIX, 383 p. 53 ill., 3 ill. in color ; online resource. - (Science and Fiction) |
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Some First Words -- Introduction -- A Broad Look At Time Travel -- Philosophical Space and Time -- The Physics of Time Travel —Part I.-Philosophers, Physicists, and the Time Travel Paradoxes -- Communication With the Past -- The Physics of Time Travel —Part II -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Glossary -- Index.. - Springer eBooks. - Printed edition: 9783319488622
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| ID scheda | 139383 |
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