LEADER 04476nam 22006615 450 001 9910156336103321 005 20200705063457.0 010 $a9783319488646 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-48864-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000985026 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-48864-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4773791 035 $a(PPN)197456685 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000985026 100 $a20161224d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTime Machine Tales $eThe Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel /$fby Paul J. Nahin 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XLIX, 383 p. 53 illus., 3 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aScience and Fiction,$x2197-1188 311 $a3-319-48864-3 311 $a3-319-48862-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aSome 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. . 330 $aThis book contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author's earlier books on the subject. In that spirit there are, for example, no Tech Notes filled with algebra, integrals, and differential equations, as there are in the first and second editions of TIME MACHINES. Writing about time travel is, today, a respectable business. It hasn?t always been so. After all, time travel, prima facie, appears to violate a fundamental law of nature; every effect has a cause, with the cause occurring before the effect. Time travel to the past, however, seems to allow, indeed to demand, backwards causation, with an effect (the time traveler emerging into the past as he exits from his time machine) occurring before its cause (the time traveler pushing the start button on his machine?s control panel to start his trip backward through time). Time Machine Tales includes new discussions of the advances by physicists and philosophers that have appeared since the publication of TIME MACHINES in 1999, examples of which are the chapters on time travel paradoxes. Those chapters have been brought up-to-date with the latest philosophical thinking on the paradoxes. Paul Nahin is THE authority on the intricate physics of time travel, paradoxes and all. He makes the field as clear as it can be. ? Gregory Benford, author of Timescape. 410 0$aScience and Fiction,$x2197-1188 606 $aPhysics 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophy and science 606 $aGravitation 606 $aPopular Science in Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q29000 606 $aPopular Science in Philosophy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q21000 606 $aPhilosophy of Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34000 606 $aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P29000 606 $aClassical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P19070 615 0$aPhysics. 615 0$aPhilosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophy and science. 615 0$aGravitation. 615 14$aPopular Science in Physics. 615 24$aPopular Science in Philosophy. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Science. 615 24$aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. 615 24$aClassical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory. 676 $a530.11 700 $aNahin$b Paul J$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$048655 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910156336103321 996 $aTime Machine Tales$92053554 997 $aUNINA