ASIN: B00818DG0Y
Publisher: (May 6, 2012)
Pages: 16
Will 2012 come to be known as Year Zero in the Age of Time Travel? Will the current century be defined by the wormhole and the time machine as the last was defined by the jet engine and space travel? Rich Cohen spent months reading the reports and studying the data, interviewing world-renowned physicists in the United States, Russia and Japan, some of whom believe we are indeed on the verge of a new era. Time travel, where the mathematics of Einstein’s Universe inevitably leads, was once the province of tin hat wearing nutters; in the last few years, it has become a legitimate field of study, respectable. As T.H. White wrote in The Once and Future King, “Anything that can happen, will happen.” And, as the Einstein’s numbers tell us, Anything that will happen, has happened.In this hilarious, mood altering essay, Cohen sets out to answer a few simple questions about time travel: how ...
