Time Travel

Time Travel
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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological – the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilisations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture – from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.

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James Gleick. Time Travel

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

ONE. Machine

TWO. Fin de Siècle

THREE. Philosophers and Pulps

FOUR. Ancient Light

FIVE. By Your Bootstraps

SIX. Arrow of Time

SEVEN. A River, a Path, a Maze

EIGHT. Eternity

NINE. Buried Time

TEN. Backward

ELEVEN. The Paradoxes

TWELVE. What Is Time?

THIRTEEN. Our Only Boat

FOURTEEN. Presently

Footnotes. One: Machine

Two: Fin de Siècle

Three: Philosophers and Pulps

Four: Ancient Light

Five: By Your Bootstraps

Six: Arrow of Time

Seven: A River, a Path, a Maze

Eight: Eternity

Nine: Buried Time

Ten: Backward

Eleven: The Paradoxes

Twelve: What Is Time?

Thirteen: Our Only Boat

Fourteen: Presently

Sources and Further Reading

STORIES

ANTHOLOGIES

BOOKS ABOUT TIME TRAVEL AND TIME

Index

Illustration Credits

Acknowledgments

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALSO BY JAMES GLEICK

About the Publisher

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To Beth, Donen, and Harry

—Charles Lamb (1817)

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Above all, modern time was irreversible, inexorable, and unrepeatable. Progress marched onward—a good thing, if you were a technological optimist. Cyclical time, crosswinds of time, eternal return, the wheel of life: these were romantic notions now, for poets and nostalgic philosophers.

The Normal School, later renamed the Royal College of Science, was a lucky place for H. G., the youngest son of a shopkeeper and a former housemaid. As a teenager he had spent three unhappy years serving as a draper’s apprentice. Now, in the college’s new five-story elevator-equipped building, he studied elementary biology with (“under the shadow of”) Thomas H. Huxley, the famous Darwinian—a mighty intellectual liberator, Wells thought, bravely battling the priests and know nothings, establishing the facts of evolution from painstakingly assembled fossil evidence and embryological material, filling up the “great jig-saw puzzle,” the confirmation of the tree of life. It was the most educational year of his life: “a grammar of form and a criticism of fact.” He had less use for the course in physics, of which he later remembered little but his own ineptitude in trying to contrive a barometer from some bits of brass and wood and glass tubing.

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