Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction

"Here's a gem of a book...all peppered with delightful notes from science fiction films, novels, and comics. I can't turn a page without finding a jewel." Clifford Stoll, University of California, Berkeley, author of The Cuckoo's Egg "The research that has gone into this book is impressive." Nature "For professional physicists much of the value lies in the extensive technical appendices and footnotes, and the exhaustive list of references. But if, like me, you are a child at heart, the real fun lies in the zany stories and wild speculations." Physics World Time Machines explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. This very readable work covers a variety of topics including the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Goedel, and others; time travel paradoxes, and much more.

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SFRA REVIEW "Dr. Nahin has done a fine job with this book. [This book] is an excellent synthesis of the current state of the philosophical and physical discussion on time travel. His use of science fiction to illustrate the possibilities of this research make his work very readable for the layperson as well as the scientist. His explanation why H.G. Wells's time machine wouldn't work (it does not move in space) is particularly engaging...[it] is an excellent addition to the discussion of time travel."

NATURE "The research that has gone into this book is impressive. The author has a made a good selection of ideas from the scientific literature on spacetime, causality violation and time-travel paradoxes, and they are presented at a popular level with science-fiction plots running in parallel." more

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1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-12-2007; Suffers from being written by a nonscientist; While Nahin is certainly to be admired for attempting to tackle so great a concept as time travel, one needs to approach his resulting product with great caution.A full discussion of time travel should include the following elements:1)...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-08-2004; Awfully weak; I got the second edition (1999) of this book. I was hoping for something interesting. After all, there was even a forward by none other than Kip Thorne!But this book was an awful disappointment. First, Nahin did his readers no favor...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-24-2003; Too much compilation, too little synthesis; Mr. Nahin obviously is very interested in the topic of time travel. He has read tons of sci-fi stories, has spoken with many physicists and/or read their books.But he is a journalist, not a physicist. And he makes little or even no...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-29-2002; A very good discussion of time travel, one error of omission; As I have always been fascinated by the idea of time travel, I very much enjoyed its discussion both in 'strictly scientific' terms and from a philosophical, literary, and, essential, pop-culture perspective. Sadly, Nahin completely...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-29-2002; A very good discussion of time travel, one error of omission; As I have always been fascinated by the idea of time travel, I very much enjoyed its discussion both in 'strictly scientific' terms and from a philosophical, literary, and, essential, pop-culture perspective. Sadly, Nahin completely...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-24-2003; Too much compilation, too little synthesis; Mr. Nahin obviously is very interested in the topic of time travel. He has read tons of sci-fi stories, has spoken with many physicists and/or read their books.But he is a journalist, not a physicist. And he makes little or even no...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-12-2007; Suffers from being written by a nonscientist; While Nahin is certainly to be admired for attempting to tackle so great a concept as time travel, one needs to approach his resulting product with great caution.A full discussion of time travel should include the following elements:1)...; read full review | report as inappropriate