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Time : a traveler's guide / Clifford A. Pickover

This volume examines the nature of time and the theoretical possibility of time travel through a combination of physics, philosophy, and history. It employs diagrams and simulations to explain concepts such as space-time diagrams, light cones, and relativity.

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