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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Broderick, Damien (1944-....)
Titre(s) : The time machine hypothesis [Texte électronique] : extreme science meets science fiction / Damien Broderick
Édition : 1st ed. 2019
Publication : Cham : Springer international publishing, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 ressource en ligne (1 texte électronique) : fichiers PDF
Collection : Science and Fiction, ISSN 2197-1196
Lien à la collection : Science and fiction (Internet)
Note(s) : Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 25 juillet 2019). - Index
Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century
it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power,
aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with
electronic business, chatter and virtual-reality entertainment so brilliant that the
division between real and simulated is hard to discern. But one new idea from the
19th century has failed, so far, to enter reality-time travel, using machines to turn
the time dimension into a two-way highway. Will it come true, as foreseen in science
fiction? Might we expect visits to and from the future, sooner than from space? That
is the Time Machine Hypothesis, examined here by futurist Damien Broderick, an award-winning
writer and theorist of the genre of the future. Broderick homes in on the topic through
the lens of science as well as fiction, exploring some fifty different time-travel
scenarios and conundrums found in the science fiction literature and film
Sujet(s) : Voyages dans le temps -- Dans la littérature
Sciences
Indice(s) Dewey :
530.11 (23e éd.) = Théorie de la relativité
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783030161781. - ISBN 3030161781. - ISBN 9783030161774 (erroné). - ISBN 9783030161798
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46648886v
Notice n° :
FRBNF46648886
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : PART ONE: Spacetime Time ; Time Travel Unraveled ; The Scientific Basis for Time
Machines ; Closed Timelike Loops ; Don't Change the Past ; PART TWO: Time Machine
Time ; The First Half Century (and a bit) ; Empires of Time ; Behold the Time Machine
; Time's Up ; Highways to the End of Time ; Windows Into the Past ; From Dinosaurs
to Elsewhen ; Looping Time ; PART THREE: A Thought Experiment is Not a Theory ;
In Search of Lost Time Machines ; Appendix: "The Dry Sauvages". .
