LEADER 04318nam 22006375 450 001 9910254598903321 005 20200702231027.0 010 $a3-319-67486-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-67486-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000001041550 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-67486-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5149910 035 $a(PPN)221253254 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001041550 100 $a20171117d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Dark Arrow of Time $eA Scientific Novel /$fby Massimo Villata 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (V, 163 p. 1 illus.) 225 1 $aScience and Fiction,$x2197-1188 311 $a3-319-67485-4 327 $aI Very fidgety, the fat lady next to him -- II They were flying over gentle crimson hills -- III Helias slept fitfully -- IV ?Why did you do that?? -- V The next morning it rained -- VI Seated behind his enormous desk -- VII A sort of autumn had arrived -- VIII The professor, with his most blissful expression -- IX As they came closer to Mars -- X The pilot and the prisoner had reached the shuttle -- XI Nothing moved in the silent valley -- XII Helias was stretched out on the floor of his room -- XIII ?Are they high enough yet?? -- XIV The meeting had left Helias Kadler shaken and confused -- XV In that moment, Helias could remember very little of his conjectures -- XVI But Dr. Kadler, that hot afternoon near a sea on the planet Thaýma -- XVII Helias had sat down on the step -- XVIII Everything had ended well. 330 $aThis riveting scientific novel combines adventure, love, suspense, magic, pathos, and mystery in a carefully woven plot that is full of unexpected twists and turns. The author is an astrophysicist who has developed an alternative theory, which holds that traveling in time is possible. Time is, in fact, the real protagonist of the novel and of the intrigue surrounding the attempt to seize the secret of Time?s other arrow, the dark arrow normally hidden from us, which points back at our past. The underlying premise is that antimatter is nothing more than common matter moving backwards in time. The justification for this interpretation has been with us for some time, ?hiding in plain sight? within Maxwell?s equations, the Lorentz transformations, the CPT theorem of relativistic quantum mechanics, and Feynman diagrams. While the science underlying the narrative is explained whenever necessary, sometimes with the aid of simple mathematical formulas, these scientific asides account for only a small part of the book, which will appeal to a wide audience, including readers who are far from being science buffs. 410 0$aScience and Fiction,$x2197-1188 606 $aPhysics 606 $aElementary particles (Physics) 606 $aQuantum field theory 606 $aSpace sciences 606 $aFiction 606 $aPopular Science in Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q29000 606 $aElementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P23029 606 $aSpace Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22030 606 $aFiction$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000 615 0$aPhysics. 615 0$aElementary particles (Physics). 615 0$aQuantum field theory. 615 0$aSpace sciences. 615 0$aFiction. 615 14$aPopular Science in Physics. 615 24$aElementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory. 615 24$aSpace Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). 615 24$aFiction. 676 $a813.0876208 700 $aVillata$b Massimo$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0825039 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254598903321 996 $aThe Dark Arrow of Time$92238311 997 $aUNINA