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How is faster-than-light related to back-in-time?
Contemplate simply stated paradoxes in this popular-level, nearly math-free book by Robert J. Nemiroff — a Professor of Physics and Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Albert Einstein knew already in the early 1900s, when he first published his famous paper about the constancy of the speed of light, that not only did this constancy imply that mass contains energy (E = m c squared), but that faster-than-light motion could lead to paradoxes — some that seemed to involve backwards time travel.
What are these paradoxes? Why is light and its speed relevant? This book will lead you through an obstacle course of conundrums and oddities, building up your understanding of how light’s speed creates simple but mind-expanding paradoxes — one conceptual riddle at a time.
This is not your average popular science book. This is also not a textbook. This book takes one theme — the universally constant speed of light — and shows how it may appear compromised on scales from the quantum mechanics of the very small to the cosmology of the very large, and the resulting surprising implications can result.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CPTB4FTD
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Betelgeuse Press
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 9.7 MB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 418 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1662933851
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #16,747 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #1 in Physics of Optics #1 in Physics of Light (Kindle Store) #1 in Molecular Physics (Books)
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