01829cam a2200265 4500 771255210 TxAuBib 20120723120000.0 110614s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011025250 9780226224985 HRD $30.00 0226224988 HRD $30.00 ICU/DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib Everett, Allen. Time travel and warp drives [Book] : a scientific guide to shortcuts through time and space / Allen Everett and Thomas Roman. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012. 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Time, clocks, and reference frames -- Lorentz transformations and special relativity -- The light cone -- Forward time travel and the twin "paradox" -- "Forward, into the past" -- The arrow of time -- General relativity: curved space and warped time -- Wormholes and warp bubbles: beating the light barrier and possible -- Time machines -- Banana peels and parallel worlds -- "Don't be so negative": exotic matter -- "To boldly go . . ."? -- Cylinders and strings -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Derivation of the Galilean velocity transformation -- Appendix 2. Derivation of the Lorentz transformations -- Appendix 3. Proof of the invariance of the spacetime interval -- Appendix 4. Argument to show the orientation of the axes relative to the axes -- Appendix 5. Timedilation via light clocks -- Appendix 6. Hawking's theorem -- Appendix 7. Light pipe in the Mallett time machine. 20120723. Eleanor Steele Blocher Endowment Fund. Time travel. Space and time. Roman, Thomas.