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How does the Star Trek universe stack up against the real universe?

What warps when you're traveling at warp speed? What is the difference between a wormhole and a black hole? Are time loops really possible, and can I kill my grandmother before I am born? Anyone who has ever wondered "could this really happen?" will gain useful insights into the Star Trek universe (and, incidentally, the real world of physics) in this charming and accessible guide. Lawrence M. Krauss boldly goes where Star Trek has gone-and beyond. From Newton to Hawking, from Einstein to Feynman, from Kirk to Picard, Krauss leads readers on a voyage to the world of physics as we now know it and as it might one day be.

ISBN-13: 9780465002047

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Basic Books

Publication Date: 06-04-2007

Pages: 280

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.87(d)

Lawrence M. Krauss is Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve University. He is the only physicist to have received the top awards by the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics, and the American Association of Physics Teachers. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

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A CosmicPoker Game In which the physics of inertial dampers and tractor beams paves the way for time travel, warp speed, deflector shields, wormholes, andother spacetime oddities

Chapter One

Newton Antes

"No matter where you go, there you are."
—From a plaque on the starship Excelsior, in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, presumably borrowed from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai <

What People are Saying About This

Stephen Hawking(in the foreward)

"Today's science fiction is often tomorrow's science fact. The physics that underlies Star Trek is surely worth investigating. To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."

Table of Contents


Forward, by Stephen Hawking
Preface
Preface to the Revised Edition

SECTION ONE
A Cosmic Poker Game
1. Newton Antes
2. Einstein Raises
3. Hawking Shows His Hand
4. Data Ends the Game

SECTION TWO
Matter Matter Everywhere
5. Atoms or Bits
6. The Most Bang for Your Buck
7. Holodecks and Holograms

SECTION THREE
The Invisible Universe, or Things That Go Bump in the Night
8. The Search for Spock
9. The Menagerie of Possibilities
10. Impossibilities: The Undiscoverable Country