Time Travel: A History
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (819 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01KKQ8GT0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 308 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture, from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. G. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological - the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, 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.Gleick's story begins at the turn of the 20th century, with the young H. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation: The Time Machine
Good read but unlike Gleick's earlier work Aran Joseph Canes As usual, Gleick writes about his subject, the cultural phenomenon of interest in time travel, in a insightful and engaging manner. Fans of Gleick's earlier works, however, should know that this book is very different from its predecessors.In Chaos, Gleick described a branch of science that only graduate physics would encounter and explained it to a wider audience. While his work on informa. John D. Cofield said Time And Its Fascinating Mysteries. As a teenager one of my favorite books was H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. I would have given anything to be able to hop onto that Victorian bicycle-type machine, screw on the levers, and roar off into the distant future or ancient past. As James Gleick makes clear in this fascinating book, countless others have shared my dream, both before and after Wells' own time. Time Travel: A History is. a dizzying survey of time travel, time, memory, dreams, by way of literature, film, philosophy, and physics David Evans Time Travel: A History, could have been pretty short. After all, to quote physicist Stephen Hawking, "The best evidence we have that time travel is not possible, and never will be, is that we have not been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future."But instead of restricting himself to an examination of actual time travel, Gleick leads us through a history of the concept of time travel,