Time Travel: A History
A History, Time Travel, Physics book. Hugo Gernsback invented pulp magazines and the grandfather paradox. Not bad for a charlatan. James Gleick, Time Travel:...
-A time-jumping, head-tripping odyssey.- --The Millions -A bracing swim in the waters of science, technology and fiction.- --Washington Post -A thrilling journey of ideas.- --Boston Globe From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century,...
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Chinas official State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television issued a warning and denunciation of time travel in 2011, concerned that such stories interfere with historycasually James Gleick, Time Travel // Your body moves always in the present, the dividing line between the past and the future, but your mind is more free. It can think and is in the present. It can remember and at once is in the past. It can imagine and at once is in the future, in its own choice of all the possible futures. Your mind can travel through time. (Eric Frank Russell, 1941) James Gleick, Time Travel: A History // Hugo Gernsback invented pulp magazines and the grandfather paradox. Not bad for a charlatan. James Gleick, Time Travel: A History //
Perhaps I read too much science fiction growing up, especially time travel stories. Perhaps I thought about the theories and paradoxes over-much on my own: see my review of "Dark Matter". It's true, I forgot to use, as the classic example of the "impossibly theory", Adolf Hitler--half the mediocre time travel stories try (unsuccessfully)... A jumbled conglomeration of theories on time travel's viability vs. humanity's love affair with it. Gleick labels this a history, but a systematic chronology of events it is not. Prepare to wade through a swamp of pop culture references... but only one heralding "a boy in a DeLorean.Come back to me, Marty McFly :(Interesting quotes:-----------------What... It's hard to imagine a topic that is more rife with paradoxes than time travel (or 'Time Trave' as this book's trying-too-hard cover design appears to call it), so it shouldn't be surprising that this book itself is a paradox. There are few subjects more dripping with potential for fun popular science than time travel - but this isn't...
