Time: A Traveler's Guide by Clifford A. Pickover Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Time: A Traveler's Guide
Book Review: "Intellectually daring" -- Booklist
Summary: 5 Stars
The April 1998 issue of Booklist says of this book, "ENTERTAINING... WILD... IMAGINATIVE... THE INTELLECTUAL DARING OF THIS BOOK GUARANTEES IT A SIZABLE READERSHIP NOW AND -- WHO KNOWS? -- PERHAPS IN THE DISTANT PAST AND FUTURE AS WELL." - Booklist, 1998
Book Review: A must read for anyone considering traveling through time!
Summary: 5 Stars
Once again, Clifford Pickover has taken tough concepts in physics, mathematics and philosophy and made them tangible to the common reader. This time, he guides the reader through a plethora of mind stretching ideas dealing with time and time travel.Like other books by Cliff, Time: a Traveler's Guide is written in such a way that anyone with an interest in time and time travel (from one who considers him or herself weak in physics to one who may have a PhD in a science) will enjoy this book. And of course, the computer experiments at the back of the book especially appeal to us computer junkies!
A must read for anyone considering traveling through time!
Book Review: Amazing and profound.
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a physics lecturer at a small college. When I came across this book in the college bookstore, I was amazed and delighted. I thought I knew something about the nature of time. I read the book three times already, each time picking up new information. Once you read the chapter "The Brain's Time Machine", you'll never feel the same again. A profound and beautiful book. Students will cherish this book through the next century.
Book Review: An entertaining account of time travel
Summary: 5 Stars
Dr. Pickover has written an entertaining account of time travel. The book may be enjoyed by a scientist or an ordinary reader. In keeping with his unique thought process Pickover has appended a section of comments provided by friends, in effect a set of book reviews. One comment - "The relativistic metric is hyperbolic" can only be appreciated by a physicist. Pickover is indeed a world-class science writer. Any of his books is worth reading. It is a surprise that he did not make himself a subject of his book titled "Strange Brains and Genius; The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen".Book Review: An excellent book for anyone wishing to travel through time.
Summary: 5 Stars
Once again, Clifford Pickover has taken tough concepts in physics, mathematics and philosophy and made them available and enjoyable to all. This time with Time: A Traveler's Guide.As in previous works, Pickover places the reader into the story. The reader along with his companions perform many experiments and mental excercises. The actions of the characters and the experiments themselves are then explained in sections called "The Science Behind the Science Fiction". This makes the book enjoyable for anyone interested in time and time travel. And of course, Pickover includes computer algorithms at the end of the book for us computer junkies!
An excellent book for anyone wishing to travel through time!