Build Your Own Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel

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In Build Your Own Time Machine, acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes inspiration from his childhood favourites, Doctor Who and H.G. Wells, to explain the nature of time. He explores the amazing possibilities of quantum entanglement, superluminal speeds, neutron star cylinders and wormholes in space. How did the theories of one man change the way time is perceived Why wouldn't H.G. Wells's time machine have worked And what would we need to do to make a real one
'Clegg's enjoyable exposition of how human time travel might be possible... give[s] some unusually lucid scientific explanations' The Guardian
'Clegg proves himself to be a lucid guide to the often complex science of time travel. His ambitious book covers more or less the whole of twentieth-century physics from relativity to string theory' The Times Literary Supplement

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'Clegg's enjoyable exposition of how human time travel might be possible ... give[s] some unusually lucid scientific explanations' Guardian 'Clegg proves himself to be a lucid guide to the often complex science of time travel. His ambitious book covers more or less the whole of twentieth-century physics from relativity to string theory' Times Literary Supplement 'Brian Clegg conjectures on the totally conjectural world of time and space travel and brings it all beautifully down to earth. Brilliant' Johnny Ball

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Brian Clegg was born in Lancashire. He read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University and has an MA in Operational Research from Lancaster University. In 1994 he set up a consultancy whose clients include the BBC, Met Office, Sony, the Treasury and others. His books include Gravity, Inflight Science and Infinity.