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Quantum Leap: The Revolutionary Science of Time Travel by Maxwell Scott is a thought-provoking and comprehensive exploration of one of the most intriguing concepts in science - time travel. From the theoretical frameworks to the ethical implications, this book takes you on a journey through the science of time travel, both through physics and technology. The first part of the book focuses on time travel through physics, delving into topics such as...

Nous sommes en 1990. Jake Stevenson a enfin terminé la machine à remonter le temps sur laquelle il travaillait depuis des années. Son but étant de partir rencontrer les plus grands inventeurs de ce monde, il a programmé la machine afin que celle-ci stoppe à des dates et des endroits importants de l'histoire de l'humanité. Mais c'est sa fiancée, Diane Reddams, qui entre dans la machine temporelle par accident.En dépit de son scepticisme, Diane...

In the hollowed-out skull of the sixteenth President of the United States, a miserable time traveler builds a modest studio apartment and isolates himself from his own time, his own space, his own species, and his own past. But when gruesome reminders of his life prior to intracranial habitation begin appearing in his freshly constructed apartment, the time traveler is forced to either contend with his memories or, failing that, to run further away...

En un mundo plagado de misterios, desafíos y adversidades, la humanidad busca constantemente respuestas y soluciones que le permitan comprender y superar los obstáculos que se le presentan. En medio de esta búsqueda incansable, surge un hombre llamado Kevin, cuya mente brillante y curiosa lo lleva a descubrir un extraordinario invento capaz de cambiar el curso de la historia: una máquina dimensional.En "Viajar al Pasado2 : Viajes en el Tiempo...

In "The Conversation with Einstein", Jeremiah Laing is a time-travelling historian from the 42nd century, who becomes marooned in the year 1931 after saving a man named Sidney Chalmers from an accident. After an intriguing conversation at one of Einstein's lectures, the trio discover that Chalmers holds an invention capable of compressing interstellar distances into a single step - the Portal. Their journey through the Portal lands them in a tropical...

Imagine being born the son of a slave with the mind of a genius. That was Simmie Johnson in the years following the Civil War. After a perilous escape from lynch mobs in Mississippi, he manages to earn a PhD in physics at Tuskegee, and in his research discovers the secret of time travel. He develops a design for a time machine called a Chronocar, but the technology required to make it work does not yet exist.Fast forward 125 years. A young African...

Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past-and soon to be haunted by the future. In early-twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar in the forested interior. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base, freezing ice out of the air and emitting a burst of ionizing radiation. It appears to be composed...

Time travel doesn't actually solve problems. It just makes them more complex... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

This is a fictional, short western story. The story begins in the current day of 2017 while at a cowboy competition shoot, dressed in an era custom representing 1860 to 1899 with two replica revolvers, a rifle, and shotgun representing the era. Then due to an event occurring during a competition shoot, the story's main character is flipped back in time to 1880. Once in the past, now our main character must adapt to the era without injecting 2017...

Este libro es un homenaje a los grandes títulos de un género—el de los viajes en el tiem-po—que bajo el amparo de la ciencia ficción ha conmovido generaciones de espectado-res, ya sea en las salas de cine o ante la pantalla de un televisor. Escrito de una manera cautivadora y amena, Doc Pastor nos recuerda, a través de es-tas páginas, que la cultura popular también está hecha con los mejores mimbres del buen entretenimiento. • Timecop:...