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Time Travel

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James Gleick

People have been fascinated by the popular, perplexing concept of time travel for more than a century. Time travel is a widely held belief today, yet it is constrained by theoretical impossibilities, internal laws, and complex considerations.

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Time Travel explores the history of a fascinating concept. These bites describe how the concept of time travel first gained attraction, the issues it raises, and how you may have already started time traveling without realizing it.

Book summary

James Gleick is an American author, journalist, and historian of science known for his engaging and accessible writing on complex scientific and technological topics. He has written extensively about the history and impact of various scientific disciplines, particularly in the realm of chaos theory and information theory.

People have been fascinated by the popular, perplexing concept of time travel for more than a century. Time travel is a widely held belief today, yet it is constrained by theoretical impossibilities, internal laws, and complex considerations.

"When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive."

"It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness."

"Maybe that’s why young people make success. They don’t know enough. Because when you know enough it’s obvious that every idea that you have is no good."

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Time travel is a relatively new concept.

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Rules for time travel were established as the concept developed.

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Our understanding of time has been altered by scientists such as Albert Einstein.

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Time travel is filled with paradoxes.

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Thanks to memory, literature, and the internet, we travel through time every day.

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