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Paradoxes of Time Travel
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Ryan Wasserman presents a wide-ranging exploration of puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, including the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity. He draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology. The Paradoxes of Time Travel is written in an accessible style, and filled with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture.
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- ISBN-13: 9780198793335
- ISBN-10: 0198793332
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish Date: January 2018
- Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
- Page Count: 272
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