Time Paradoxes
Eleanor Hawking
Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Naturwissenschaften allgemein
Beschreibung
Time Paradoxes explores the mind-bending world of temporal inconsistencies, challenging our understanding of causality and the fundamental laws governing the universe. It delves into the science attempting to explain time travel, differentiating between theoretical possibilities suggested by physics, such as relativity, and fictional depictions. The book highlights intriguing paradoxes like the Grandfather Paradox, where one prevents their own birth, and the Bootstrap Paradox, where an object lacks a discernible origin, existing only within a closed loop.
The book's approach involves systematically exploring potential resolutions to these paradoxes, including the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics and Novikov's self-consistency principle. It emphasizes how grappling with time paradoxes provides profound insights into the nature of time itself.
Progressing through the chapters, the book first establishes the scientific and philosophical context, then dissects prominent time paradoxes, and finally, explores proposed resolutions and their scientific plausibility based on current research in theoretical physics and cosmology.
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