Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel

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INDEX Abbott, Edwin, 67, 87 advanced solution, 149-150 affecting the past, 4, 100, 111-112, 167. See also changing the past Amis, Kingsley, 10-11 Anderson, Poul, 9, 24, 84, 120, 133-134, 138 antimatter, 5, 61-63, 71, 165, 168 antitelephones, 151-153 arrows of time. See direction (of time) Asimov, Isaac, 72, 113 back reaction, 31, 175 Back to the Future (film) , 21, 64, 106, 109 Baxter, Stephen, 141-142, 163, 172 Bell, Eric Temple ("JohnTaine"),79 Bellamy, Edward, 12 Benford, Gregory, 140, 153 bilking paradox, 146, 160-161 black holes, 5, 128-131, 135, 146, 165-166 Blish, James, 99, 149, 151 block universe, 87-98, 125, 146 Bova, Ben, 47 Bradley, Francis Herbert, 89 Brown, Fredric, 118 Buck Rogers, 12 Burdekin, Katherine, 13 Butler, Octavia, 13 Campbell, John W., 63 Card, Orson Scott, 5, 7, Carr, John Dickson, 7 Cauchy horizon, 5, 140, 175 causal loops, 5, 14-15, 19, 105, 107, 123-126, 146-147, 170 causality, 53, 56-59, 147-148 changing the past, 3-4, 11, 14, 21, 23, 101-104, 109-126, 146, 167, 171. See also affecting the past. chronology horizon. See Cauchy horizon. chronology protection, 173-175 circular time. See helical time. Clarke, Arthur C., 71, 75, 77-78 clock hypothesis, 42 closed timelike curves. See CTC. Conklin, Groff, 10-11 conservation laws, 63, 93-95, 126, 130, 134, 166 cosmic strings, 5, 64, 141-142, 173 cosmological constant, 101 CTC, 52, 54, 100-101, 104, 131, 140-141, 170, 173-174 D'Alembert, Jean le Rond, 73 De Camp, L. Sprague, 23, 64, 94, 118, 127, 169 Del Rey, Lester, 10-11 Deser, S., 31 determinism, 91-92 Deutsch, David, 170-171 Dick, Philip K., 22, 81 Dirac radio, 149 direction (of time), 5, 78-85 Dodgson, Charles (Lewis Carroll), 71 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 24 Dr. Who, 103 Eddington, AS., 80 Einstein, Albert, 17, 31-32, 35-37, 50-53, 61, 68, 76, 87, 91-92, 94, 100-102, 104, 129, 143, 150, 156 electron, 61-63 Ellison, Harlan, 97 Else-When, 58-59 energy conditions, 137, 141 energy, conservation of. See conservation laws. entropy, 80-85 event horizon, 128-130 exotic matter, 137, 174 fantasy, 2, 4-5, 7, 10-12, 14-16, 27 faster-than-light (FTL). See superluminal. fatalism, 91-92, 95-98, 116 Feynman, Richard, 61-63, 148-150, 168 Finney, Jack, 12, 23, 144 Index 199 FitzGerald, George Francis, 38 fourth dimension, 5, 68-69, 71-85, 88-98 frames of reference, 32-48, 54, 151-152, 154-155 free-will, 5, 91, 95-98, 116-117, 119, 121, 169-170 freezing (travel to the future), 12, 45 Galilean transformation, 33-34, 37, 40 Galilei, Galileo, 33 gamma rays, 61-63, 65 Gardner, Martin, 167 general theory (of relativity), 4-6, 36, 50-60, 87, 95, 99-106, 128-141, 163-164 geodesies, 55 Gernsback, Hugo, 9, 16-22, 74 Godel, Kurt, 37, 53-54, 92, 100-106, 112, 134 Gott, J. Richard, 141 grandfather paradox, 1, 7, 17, 19-20, 49, 103-104, 114-122, 144, 170 Groundhog Day (film), 11,82 Haldeman, Joe, 6, 130 Harrison, Harry, 27, 72 Hawking radiation, 166-167 Hawking, Stephen, 6, 31, 77-78, 85, 128, 165-166, 173-175 Heinlein, Robert, 12, 21, 25, 45, 52, 107, 122, 126 helical time, 77-78 Here-Now, 56-58 hyperspace, 18, 51, 67-72, 75, 135-136 inertial frame, 34, 37 Jakiel, S.J., 3 Jakiw, R., 31 Jarry, Alfred, 15 Khayyam, Omar, 92, 99 King, Stephen, 70 Koontz, Dean, 3 Langevin, Paul, 41 Leinster, Murray, 10,74, 129, 135, 145 Lem, Stanislaw, 25 lensing effect, 137 Levinthal, R.E., 3 light cone, 56-59, 132, 173 Lorentz factor, 35, 37-38, 151, 154 Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction, 37-39 Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon, 36 Lorentz transformation, 36-40, 154-157 Lossev, A. SeeNovikov, Igor. many-worlds (interpretation of quantum mechanics ). See multiple time tracks. Maeterlink, Maurice, 12 Mark Twain, 13 mass, conservation of. See conservation laws. Matheson, Richard, 12 Maxwell, James Clerk, 34 Maxwell's equations, 34, 36, 149, 164 mesmerism (travel to the future), 14 Michelson-Morley experiment, 34, 38 mind travel, 5, 11-12, 15-16, Minkowski, Hermann, 36, 50-52, 54, 88-89, 93,96 Morris, William, 13 multiple time tracks, 4, 117, 167-173 Nesbit, Edith, 12 Newcomb, Simon, 68 Newton, Isaac, 32-35,50, 112 Nicholson, Jim, 20-22 Niven, Larry, 133, 173, 178 Novikov, Igor, 179-181 Panshin, Alexi, 25 paradoxes...