The Science of Time Travel
The Science of Time Travel

Author: Elizabeth Howell

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-06-02

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1510749659

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Travel back in time with Doctor Who, the Terminator, the X-Men, and all your favorite time travelers! Science fiction is the perfect window into the possibilities and perils of time travel. What would happen if you went back in time and killed your own grandparent? If you knew how to stop a presidential assassination, would time travel allow you to make your wish come true? Can we use time travel as a tool to escape the destiny of our future or mistakes of the past? The Science of Time Travel explores time travel through your favorite science-fiction franchises, from the classic time travel paradoxes of Star Trek to the universe-crossing shenanigans of Doctor Who. Discover the real science behind questions such as: Can time travel really erase our past regrets like in A Christmas Carol? Is it worth killing people in the past to prevent a horrible future like in Terminator? What can we learn from living the same day over and over again like in Groundhog Day? Could time travel destroy our right to privacy like in Deja Vu? And so much more! It's time to fire up the DeLorean to 88 mph, jump into the TARDIS hiding in plain sight, or warp space with the USS Enterprise to explore what time travel means for us.

Time Travel
Time Travel

Author: Nikk Effingham

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0198842503

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Time travel is metaphysically possible. Nikk Effingham contends that arguments for the impossibility of time travel are not sound. Focusing mainly on the Grandfather Paradox, Effingham explores the ramifications of taking this view, discusses issues in probability and decision theory, and considers the potential dangers of travelling in time.

Time Travel
Time Travel

Author: Corona Brezina

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2018-07-15

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1508180466

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The topic of time travel provides tantalizing conundrums to consider for STEM experts and sci-fi creators alike. Most scientists and mathematicians agree that time travel by humans is probably impossible, yet they have not been able to offer conclusive proof. This book describes how the very nature of time remains a fascinating and complex subject, whether viewed from the perspective of Einstein's relativity or the nanoscale realm of quantum physics. Readers will recognize notable fictional works in literature, film, and television in which time travel serves as a useful plot device as well as a means of examining human history and contemporary social issues.

Time Traveling with a Hamster
Time Traveling with a Hamster

Author: Ross Welford

Publisher: Schwartz & Wade

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0399551514

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Back to the Future meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in this original, poignant, race-against-time story about a boy who travels back to 1984 to save his father’s life. My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty-nine and again four years later, when he was twelve. On his twelfth birthday, Al Chaudhury receives a letter from his dead father. It directs him to the bunker of their old house, where Al finds a time machine (an ancient computer and a tin bucket). The letter also outlines a mission: travel back to 1984 and prevent the go-kart accident that will eventually take his father’s life. But as Al soon discovers, whizzing back thirty years requires not only imagination and courage, but also lying to your mom, stealing a moped, and setting your school on fire—oh, and keeping your pet hamster safe. With a literary edge and tons of commerical appeal, this incredible debut has it all: heart, humor, vividly imagined characters, and a pitch-perfect voice.

Time Travel in Popular Media
Time Travel in Popular Media

Author: Matthew Jones

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-03-27

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0786478071

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In recent years numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and video games have featured time travel narratives, with characters jumping backward, forward and laterally through time. No rules govern time travel in these stories. Some characters move by machine, some by magic, others by unexplained means. Sometime travelers can alter the timeline, while others are prevented from causing temporal aberrations. The fluid forms of imagined time travel have fascinated audiences and prompted debate since at least the 19th century. What is behind our fascination with time travel? What does it mean to be out of one's own era? How do different media tell these stories and what does this reveal about the media's relationship to time? This collection of new essays--the first to address time travel across a range of media--answers these questions by locating time travel narratives within their cultural, historical and philosophical contexts. Texts discussed include Doctor Who, The Terminator, The Georgian House, Save the Date, Back to the Future, Inception, Source Code and others.

My Time-Traveling Girlfriend
My Time-Traveling Girlfriend

Author: Charlie Clare

Publisher: Charlie Clare

Published: 2024-08-04

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13:

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Reggie works in a bookstore. In a time when women get little respect, her boss is A-OK. One of their best sources of books is Janet, a woman Reggie finds intriguing. But the books Janet sells are always of suspiciously high quality for their age. Reggie might find Janet attractive, but she doesn't want to see her boss scammed. She's got to talk to Janet and find out what's going on. Janet is game. She's game for some other things, too. Is falling into bed a bad idea? Sure. But in a world where women like Reggie and Janet have to hide at the edges of society, they take their connection where they can. Janet finally shares her story: she can travel in time. Her ability brings challenges and opportunities. Against her better judgment, Reggie finds herself falling for this complicated, beautiful woman. If she can be brave enough, she might just have finally met the girl who won't break her heart. If she survives. Genre: time travel, lesbian romance Heat level: sweet 28,000 words

Time-Travel Adventures
Time-Travel Adventures

Author: Pattimari Sheets-Cacciolfi

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-04-22

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0359606296

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A brilliant light coming through Peoria's bedroom window startles her to a trembling state - suddenly she is lifted up into a portal and time-travels into the era 1847 England from 2019 America. She can't get anyone to believe her in England until she goes back to 2019 and brings back one of her published books to prove she indeed lives in another era. Her friend, Jetty holds her hand one night and goes with her to England - they get lost in time-travel and struggle to find their way back home.

Finn and the Time-Traveling Pajamas
Finn and the Time-Traveling Pajamas

Author: Michael Buckley

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0525646922

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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Sisters Grimm and NERDS comes the second book in an action-packed middle grade series with equal parts humor and heart! When Finn is saved from the Time Rangers by an older version of himself, it comes with a catch. Old Man Finn needs Finn and his friends, Lincoln and Julep, to help him win battles he lost years ago against the Paradox, a terrible creatures obsessed with revenge against Finn's father. If they succeed, he promises to tell Finn where his father is. He even gives them a pair of time-traveling pajamas to help them with their quest. There's only one problem. The pajamas malfunction almost immediately. Along the way the kids avoid being eaten by sabretooths, shot by revolutionary war soldiers, and start a war with a town full of holograms, all in an effort to fix the jammies. Just when their goal is in sight, Julep gets sick. Only...it doesn't seem like she's sick. It seems like she's changing. The adventure may cost Finn more than an old pair of pajamas--it may cost him his friends!

The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics
The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics

Author: David Toomey

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-02-14

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 039307837X

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The story of physicists' quest to answer a mind-boggling question: How can we travel through time? Since H. G. Wells' 1895 classic The Time Machine, readers of science fiction have puzzled over the paradoxes of time travel. What would happen if a time traveler tried to change history? Would some force or law of nature prevent him? Or would his action produce a "new" history, branching away from the original?In the last decade of the twentieth century a group of theoretical physicists at the California Institute of Technology undertook a serious investigation of the possibility of pastward time travel, inspiring a serious and sustained study that engaged more than thirty physicists working at universities and institutes around the world.Many of the figures involved are familiar: Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne; others are names known mostly to physicists. These are the new time travelers, and this is the story of their work--a profoundly human endeavor marked by advances, retreats, and no small share of surprises. It is a fantastic journey to the frontiers of physics. Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.

Mr. Hornsby and the Time-Traveling Classroom
Mr. Hornsby and the Time-Traveling Classroom

Author: Andrew Brezak

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2023-10-02

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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Mr. Hornsby's back, and American civil rights are in jeopardy! After traveling back through time with his students to the White House in 1891, seeing Babe Ruth play baseball in 1919, diving away from bullets on the frontier in 1844, and even rescuing the Roaring Twenties, he'd thought he'd seen it all. Yet nothing could have prepared him for what's about to come next! In this thrilling follow-up to Secrets of the Pierce Journal, the evil group of time-traveling colonists known as the Loyalists have planted another deadly trap; and it's up to Mr. Hornsby and his best friend, Rosie, to once again take on the past to save the future. If they can't stop the enemy in time and unravel the truth behind the mysterious target, American history will be lost forever.