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How to Build a Time Machine

by Paul Davis
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How to Build a Time Machine
How to Build a Time Machine

Time travel possibilities explored by renowned physicist.

If you're intrigued by the complexities of time travel and yearn for a blend of science and imagination, Paul Davies' "How to Build a Time Machine" will feed your curiosity. Davies takes complicated physics concepts and makes them accessible, presenting an exciting exploration of time travel that balances scientific theory with thought-provoking questions. This book might just stretch your understanding of time itself.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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How to Build a Time Machine

by Paul Davis
$14.90
ISBN: 9780713995831
Authors: Paul Davis
Publisher: Allen Lane
Date of Publication: 2001-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Science, Philosophy
Related Topics: Physics, Space, Popular Science, Astronomy, Mathematics
Goodreads rating: 3.82
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Is time travel possible? According to internationally acclaimed physicist and science writer Paul Davies, the answer is definitely yes. But if we can travel in time, surely we can glimpse the future and act to change it? Or alter the past, creating all sorts of bizarre paradoxes? This hugely entertaining brain-twisting book reveals how it might be done. With his remarkable gift for easy explanation, Paul Davies shows how to use gravity to visit the future and how to warp space to reach the past; and, in a "tour de force", how to build a time machine from a traversable wormhole. This is the ultimate time traveller's companion. Paul Davies expertly and effortlessly explains the mind-boggling physics that makes time travel possible, and more importantly shows how we can make sense of this very possibility. Might the inconceivable be achievable? Can we break the last cosmic taboo?
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Time travel possibilities explored by renowned physicist.

If you're intrigued by the complexities of time travel and yearn for a blend of science and imagination, Paul Davies' "How to Build a Time Machine" will feed your curiosity. Davies takes complicated physics concepts and makes them accessible, presenting an exciting exploration of time travel that balances scientific theory with thought-provoking questions. This book might just stretch your understanding of time itself.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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