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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
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Award-winning book by renown black hole specialist
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The Nature of Space and Time
Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose
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Current: 9.4
Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of ph
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Time Travel
Paul J. Nahin
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Current: 9.4
When Kurt Vonnegut needed protagonist Billy Pilgrim to time-travel in Slaughterhouse Five, he simply had him become "unstuck" in time--still perhaps the most poetic way to trip the chronological fantastic yet devised in literature. But e
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Deep Space and Sacred Time
Jan Lundeen, Jon G. Wagner
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For many contemporary Americans, Star Trek fills the role of a secular humanist mythology, exploring and mediating the ambiguities of modern culture while offering a sense of hope and empowerment in an orderly cosmos. Its poetics of religion, gender, pro
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When Time Began
Zecharia Sitchin
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They came to Earth thousands of years ago to usher in mankind's first New Age of scientific growth and spiritual enlightenment. Under the guidance of these ancient visitors from the heavens, human civilization flourished-as revolutionary advances in art,
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Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time
Kitty Ferguson
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If you want to measure how big a stick is, you can use a ruler. Want to know how tall a windmill is? Don't waste time climbing to the top with a long measuring tape. Instead, use the old shadow trick--measure the length of a yardstick's shadow, then meas
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Time: A Traveler's Guide
Clifford A. Pickover
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The thought that humans might one day be able to harness time, traveling freely from one age to another, has been a fixture of science fiction for years. Science fact is beginning to catch up to the long-held dream: in this entertaining survey, researche
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When Time Began
Zecharia Sitchin
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Current: 9.3
They came to Earth thousands of years ago to usher in mankind's first New Age of scientific growth and spiritual enlightenment. Under the guidance of these ancient visitors from the heavens, human civilization flourished-as revolutionary advances in art,
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Times Pendulum: From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping and How Our Discoveries Changed the World
Jo Ellen Barnett
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Likely you've heard that the mechanical clock is one of humanity's most significant inventions, comparable to the printing press, or electricity, or the automobile. But first-time author Jo Ellen Barnett admits that most of us, if we're honest, don't qui
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The Nature of Space and Time
Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose
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Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of ph
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Time: A Traveler's Guide
Clifford A. Pickover
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Current: 9.1
The thought that humans might one day be able to harness time, traveling freely from one age to another, has been a fixture of science fiction for years. Science fact is beginning to catch up to the long-held dream: in this entertaining survey, researche
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Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time
Kitty Ferguson
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If you want to measure how big a stick is, you can use a ruler. Want to know how tall a windmill is? Don't waste time climbing to the top with a long measuring tape. Instead, use the old shadow trick--measure the length of a yardstick's shadow, then meas
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The Hidden Domain: Home of the Quantum Wave Function, Nature's Creative Source
Norman Friedman
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explains that our familiar three-dimensional world is a reality arising from an invisible ocean of unmeasurable energy which surrounds and permeates us. This conception as remarkable as it seems arises in a natural way from the ma thematical formalisms o
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The Search For Superstrings, Symmetry, And The Theory Of Everything
John R. Gribbin
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In days of yore, educated men and women would avidly follow new developments in the world of science; these days it seems to be too much trouble--relativity was bad enough, but "N-dimensional space"? Fortunately for those of us who have trouble visualizi
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
Michio Kaku, Robert O'Keefe (Illustrator)
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Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction
Paul J. Nahin
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Story of Time
Kristen Lippincott
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About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
P. C. W. Davies
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Stephen Hawking's Universe: The Cosmos Explained
David Filkin, Stephen Hawking
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Time's Arrow & Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time
Huw Price
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The Missing Moment
Robert Pollack
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The River of Time
Igor D. Novikov
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Time's Pendulum: The Quest to Capture Time--From Sundials to Atomic Clocks
Jo Ellen Barnett
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In Search of the Edge of Time: Black Holes, White Holes, Wormholes
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Unveiling the Edge of Time: Black Holes, White Holes, Wormholes
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Lorentzian Wormholes: From Einstein to Hawking
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Spaced Out!: An Extreme Reader, from Warps and Wormholes to Killer Asteroids
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Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings
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Black Holes, Wormholes & Time Machines
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Blackholes, Membranes, Wormholes and Superstrings: International Symposium
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Wormholes
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Cosmic Wormholes: The Search for Interstellar Shortcuts
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Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction
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A Physicist's Guide to Skepticism: Applying Laws of Physics to Faster-Than-Light Travel, Psychic Phenomena, Telepathy, Time Travel, Ufo'S, and Other
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Time Reversal, an Autobiography
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Could You Ever: Build a Time Machine
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