Time Travel
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Оглавление
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
Отрывок из книги
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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