Time: A Traveler's Guide

Preface; The Relativity of Simultaneity; Building an Einstein-Langevin Clock; The Lorentz Transformation; The Brain's Time Machine; Here-Now and Elsewhere in Space-Time; Three Important Rules for Time Travelers; Your Space or Mine?; How to Time Travel into the Future; Future Shock; Gravitational Time Dilation; Tachyons. Cosmic Moment Lines. Transcendent Infinite Speeds; Time Travel by Baloons and Strings; Can John F. Kennedy Be Saved?; Closed Timelike Curves in a Godelian Universe; Wormhole Time Machines; Adventures with Time; Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation; Some Concluding Musings and Thoughts; References; Appendix 1: The Grand Internet Time-Travel Survey; Appendix 2: Smorgesbord for Computer Junkies

Clifford A. Pickover is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Watson Research Center.

"Pickover...stretches the limits of computers, art, and thought."--Los Angeles Times"Only Clifford Pickover would think of mixing time travel and music. Gripping, clear -- this book could well be his best yet! A must buy for all wannabe time travelers."-- Ian Stewart, Scientific American"The irrepressible and prolific Clifford Pickover... romps joyously through at least four perfectly respectable scientific routes to time travel: relatively, particle physics, quantum mechanics and psychology."--New Scientist"How to travel through time is no simple matter, nor is explaining it, but Pickover rises to the challenge in many ways....The imaginative and humorous approach makes a difficult subject palatable."--Publishers Weekly