Time —— A Traveler's Guide

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ISBN: 9780195120424 出版年：1999 页码： Pickover, Clifford A Oxford University Press

Preface. The Relativity of Simultaneity. Building an Einstein-Langevin Clock. The Lorentz Transformation. The Brain's Time Machine. Here-Now and Elsewhere in Space-Time. Three Important Rules for Time Travelers. Your Space or Mine?. How to Time Travel into the Future. Future Shock. Gravitational Time Dilation. Tachyons. Cosmic Moment Lines. Transcendent Infinite Speeds. Time Travel by Baloons and Strings. Can John F. Kennedy Be Saved?. Closed Timelike Curves in a Godelian Universe. Wormhole Time Machines. Adventures with Time. Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation. Some Concluding Musings and Thoughts. References. Appendix 1: The Grand Internet Time-Travel Survey. Appendix 2: Smorgesbord for Computer Junkies