Title The Time Machine Hypothesis : Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction Author(s) Broderick, Damien Publication Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2019. Description XIII, 243 p : online resource Abstract Note Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter and virtual-reality entertainment so brilliant that the division between real and simulated is hard to discern. But one new idea from the 19th century has failed, so far, to enter reality???time travel, using machines to turn the time dimension into a two-way highway. Will it come true, as foreseen in science fiction? Might we expect visits to and from the future, sooner than from space? That is the Time Machine Hypothesis, examined here by futurist Damien Broderick, an award-winning writer and theorist of the genre of the future. Broderick homes in on the topic through the lens of science as well as fiction, exploring some fifty different time-travel scenarios and conundrums found in the science fiction literature and film ISBN,Price 9783030161781 Keyword(s) 1. EBOOK 2. EBOOK - SPRINGER 3. FICTION 4. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics 5. LITERATURE 6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 7. PHYSICS 8. Popular Science in Literature 9. Popular Science in Physics 10. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I09470     On Shelf