Faster Than Light

Author: Nick Herbert
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0452263174
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
"Even though most physicists believe that the speed of light is as fast as anyone can go, Einstein's theory of special relativity does not rule out faster-than-light (FTL) travel. On the contrary, it seems to indicate that certain superluminal or FTL effects would permit us to re-experience the past: time travel would become a reality, not science fiction. Through this crack in the cosmic egg steps Herbert, a Stanford physicist and author of Quantum Reality, who summarizes clearly current speculation and theory about faster-than-light travel. Along with space warps, black holes and tachyons (hypothetical FTL particles), he looks at the so-called 'quantum connection'—an alleged force said to instantaneously link any two subatomic particles long after they have bumped into each other. Free of the woolgathering that tints much writing on the 'new physics', this brave, exciting book should send scientists back to their drawing boards; for the nonspecialist reader, it reveals a world much stranger than Star Trek."—Publishers Weekly "Original, challenging, and audacious."—San Diego Magazine

Loving Faster Than Light

Author: Katy Price
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226680738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
This is an insightful examination of one of the essential problems of the history of science - how does elite, esoteric knowledge get read, used, modified, and owned by those outside the professional scientific community? Price focuses on one of the defining scientific ideas of the 20th century and skillfully demonstrates the many genres and styles through which it was adopted and changed.

Faster Than Light

Author: Marilyn Nelson
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807147338
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities. Poems include the stories of historical figures like Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy lynched in 1955, and the inhabitants of Seneca Village, an African American community razed in 1857 for the creation of Central Park. "Bivouac in a Storm" tells the story of a group of young soldiers, later known as the Tuskegee Airmen, as they trained near Biloxi, Mississippi, "marching in summer heat / thick as blackstrap molasses, under trees / haunted by whippings." Later pieces range from the poet's travels in Africa, Europe, and Polynesia, to poems written in collaboration with Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, a former Benedictine monk and the subject of Nelson's playful fictional fantasy sequence, "Adventure-Monk!" Both personal and historical, these poems remain grounded in everyday details but reach toward spiritual and moral truths.

Back-in-Time and Faster-than-Light Travel in General Relativity

Author: Serguei Krasnikov
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319727540
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
For the past 20 years causality violations and superluminal motion have been the object of intensive study as physical and geometrical phenomena. This book compiles the results of its author and also reviews other work in the field. In particular, the following popular questions are addressed: Is causality protected by quantum divergence at the relevant Cauchy horizon? How much "exotic matter" would it take to create a time machine or a warp drive? What is the difference between a "discovered" time machine and a created one? Why does a time traveler fail to kill their grandfather? How should we define the speed of gravity and what is its magnitude?

Special Relativity and Motions Faster than Light

Author: Moses Fayngold
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 3527622438
Category : Science
Languages : de
Pages : 320

Book Description
While the theory of special relativity is often associated with the idea of traveling faster than light, this book shows that in all these cases subtle forces of nature conspire to prevent these motions being harnessed to send signals faster than the speed of light. The author tackles these topics both conceptually, with minimal or no mathematics, and quantitatively, making use of numerous illustrations to clarify the discussion. The result is a joy to read for both scientists familiar with the subject and laypeople wishing to understand something of special relativity.

Why Nothing Can Travel Faster Than Light-- and Other Explorations in Nature's Curiosity Shop

Author: Barry E. Zimmerman
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Why is the sky blue? What killed off the dinosaurs? How big is the universe? Can computers think? Why do we grow old? To the open-eyed and inquisitive, nature is a fascinating curiosity shop with an endless array of wonders and mysteries on display. Yet most of us know very little about the marvelous aspects of science that surround us every day of our lives. Why Nothing Can Travel Faster than Light is a lively collection of engrossing and highly readable essays that shed light on some of the most provocative questions about science and technology. Barry and David Zimmerman, brothers who teach science and write widely on science subjects, range effortlessly across the broad spectrum that is nature: from how the universe began to its probable fate, from cryonics to ozone depletion, from natural history to quantum physics. Their essays will enlighten and entertain everyone who enjoys the wonder of exploring nature's marvelous curiosity shop.

Faster Than Light

Author: Edward Packard
Publisher: Starfire
ISBN: 9780553288384
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Earth falls victim to an enigmatic, advanced race whose space fortress is moving closer all the time. Faster Than Light features a special introductory price of $1.99.

Faster Than Light Volume 1: First Steps

Author: Brian Haberlin
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 9781632156846
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In the very near future we discover the secret of faster-than-light travel. Suddenly the universe is wide open to us, but are we ready for it? With all the idealism of the original Star Trek and the grit and immediacy of Gravity and The Martian, the story of humanity's first thrilling and terrifying adventures to the stars takes flight! The trade also features over 25 Augmented Reality pages to use with your smart device, that are interactive as well as over 30 pages of backstory/appendix information that impacts and adds to the conventional comic storytelling. Brian Haberlin is a comic book artist, writer, and editor. He began his career in comics working at Top Cow Productions, where he co-created the Witchblade comic. He then co-founded Avalon Studios, which published many successful fantasy and sci-fi titles, including Stone, Aria, Area 52, The Wicked and M-Rex. Haberlin also served for two years as Editor in Chief of Todd McFarlane Productions and penciled and inked its flagship title, Spawn. He currently runs Digitalarttutorials.com and teaches comic art at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He is also a contributor to 3d World and ImagineFX magazine, and his work is in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Museum.

Hunting the Faster than Light Tachyon, and Finding Three Unicorns and a Herd of Elephants

Author: Robert Ehrlich
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000587991
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
In 1905, Albert Einstein declared speeds greater than light to be impossible. This book describes the author’s decades-long search for the hypothetical subatomic particles known as tachyons that violate this principle. This book is a scientific detective story. The crime is speeding—that is, the possible breaking of the cosmic speed limit, namely the speed of light, as stipulated by Einstein. This detective story is also a memoir written by a member of a band of "tachyon hunters." The author’s pursuit of tachyons has been met with skepticism from most physicists, who note correctly that no such superluminal particles have ever been surely observed and that there have been many false sightings. Nevertheless, considerable circumstantial evidence for tachyons has already been published and an ongoing experiment could decide the issue in the next few years. This book is written for the general reader, containing humor and eliminating jargon whenever possible, and will also be of interest to scientists. The hunt for the tachyon will fascinate all readers who approach the study of physics with curious and open minds.

Cycles of Time

Author: Roger Penrose
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307596745
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
From Nobel prize-winner Roger Penrose, this groundbreaking book is for anyone "who is interested in the world, how it works, and how it got here" (New York Journal of Books). Penrose presents a new perspective on three of cosmology’s essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? And what cosmic future awaits us? He shows how the expected fate of our ever-accelerating and expanding universe—heat death or ultimate entropy—can actually be reinterpreted as the conditions that will begin a new “Big Bang.” He details the basic principles beneath our universe, explaining various standard and non-standard cosmological models, the fundamental role of the cosmic microwave background, the paramount significance of black holes, and other basic building blocks of contemporary physics. Intellectually thrilling and widely accessible, Cycles of Time is a welcome new contribution to our understanding of the universe from one of our greatest mathematicians and thinkers.