{"product_id":"9780393078374","title":"The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of physicists' quest to answer a mind-boggling question: How can we travel through time?\u003c\/p\u003e Since H. G. Wells' 1895 classic \u003cem\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/em\u003e, readers of science fiction have puzzled over the paradoxes of time travel. What would happen if a time traveler tried to change history? Would some force or law of nature prevent him? Or would his action produce a \"new\" history, branching away from the original?In the last decade of the twentieth century a group of theoretical physicists at the California Institute of Technology undertook a serious investigation of the possibility of pastward time travel, inspiring a serious and sustained study that engaged more than thirty physicists working at universities and institutes around the world.Many of the figures involved are familiar: Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne; others are names known mostly to physicists. These are the new time travelers, and this is the story of their work--a profoundly human endeavor marked by advances, retreats, and no small share of surprises. It is a fantastic journey to the frontiers of physics. Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121466786032,"sku":"9780393078374","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393078374_p0.jpg?v=1763696563","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393078374","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}