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Sto caricando le informazioni... Time Travel: A History (2016)di James Gleick
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A survey of time travel literature alongside a look at how the “science “ evolved along with it. Thoughtful and fun, no intensive understanding of physics needed ( ) This was a ramble and a half. I wasn't really able to follow much of his line of thought until the middle of the book. I picked it up because I thought it would include more of the science of the time travel. The majority of the book was literary, cultural, and the epistemological search for the nature of time travel. Glad to have this one in my past. A very thought provoking book. Mr Gleik is quite well read, and exhibits a wide ranging analysis of the idea dwelling in both the Sci-Fi world and that of more formal philosophy, and to some degree, physics. The wide-ranging bibliography contains TV scripts, the cinema, and actual books, by terry Gillam, T.S. Elliot, and of course the originator H.G. Wells. It does bring more examples, counter-arguments, and insights than one might be comfortable with. It does read well. And, one finds in it this interesting definition: "What is time? Things change, and time is how we keep track." nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological--the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture--from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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