[BOOK][B] Time machines: Time travel in physics, metaphysics, and science fiction

PJ Nahin - 2001 - books.google.com
" Here's a gem of a book... all peppered with delightful notes from science fiction films,
novels, and comics. I can't turn a page without finding a jewel." Clifford Stoll, University of …

[BOOK][B] If the universe is teeming with aliens... where is everybody?: fifty solutions to the Fermi paradox and the problem of extraterrestrial life

S Webb - 2002 - Springer
Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 million stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400
million galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14 …

[BOOK][B] If the universe is teeming with aliens... where is everybody?: seventy-five solutions to the fermi paradox and the problem of extraterrestrial life

S Webb - 2015 - Springer
Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400
billion galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14 …

[HTML][HTML] Time travel

NJJ Smith - 2013 - plato.stanford.edu
There is an extensive literature on time travel in both philosophy and physics. Part of the
great interest of the topic stems from the fact that reasons have been given both for thinking …

If time travel to our location is possible, we do not live in a branching universe

J Norton - Analysis, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This paper argues for the following disjunction: either we do not live in a world with a
branching temporal structure, or backwards time travel is nomologically impossible, given …

The Economic Case Against Time Travel: Using Science Fiction Ideas to Emphasize Economic Processes in the Classroom

JR Swinton - The American Economist, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
I describe a though experiment in which students can consider the importance of the profit
motive, the passage of time, and the dissemination of information in various markets by …

Where Is Everybody?

S Webb, S Webb - If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens... WHERE IS …, 2015 - Springer
There is something beguiling about paradox. The visual paradoxes of Maurits Escher's
prints never fail to entice the eye. Poems such as Robert Graves' Warning to Children, which …

Anthropic arguments outside of cosmology and string theory

MM Cirkovic - 2016 - philsci-archive.pitt.edu
Anthropic reasoning has lately been strongly associated with the string theory landscape
and some theories of particle cosmology, such as cosmological inflation. The association is …

A Broad Look at Time Travel

PJ Nahin, PJ Nahin - Time Machine Tales: The Science Fiction Adventures …, 2017 - Springer
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Anthropic arguments outside of cosmology and string theory

MM Ćirković - Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2016 - scindeks.ceon.rs
Anthropic reasoning has lately been strongly associated with the string theory landscape
and some theories of particle cosmology, such as cosmological inflation. The association is …