Indistinguishable from Magic
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Indistinguishable from Magic:
Arthur C. Clarke said Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. This book is a collection of essays on real future technologies that now seem magical, along with science fiction stories showing those technologies in action.
Contents:
The essays include such things as antimatter, antigravity, ways to build real starships, time travel, and a theoretical basis for life after death consistent with the known laws of physics. The latter involves the idea that matter and energy warp space and time, and therefore the patterns that represent our thoughts and memories could be impressed on the fabric of spacetime.
The stories include aliens, spacecraft, the first man to travel to another star, and the last man to die of old age.
Books by Robert L. Forward:
Dragon's Egg
Flight of the Dragonfly
Rocheworld
Indistinguishable from Magic
Arthur C. Clarke said Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. This book is a collection of essays on real future technologies that now seem magical, along with science fiction stories showing those technologies in action.
Contents:
Antimatter
Turn Left at the Moon
Beanstalks
Race to the Pole
Starships
Fading into Blackness
Antigravity
The Singing Diamond
Black Holes
Acceleration Constant
Space Warps and Time Machines
Twin Paradox
Future Speculations
A Matter Most Strange
Faster-Than-Light
Self-Limiting
The essays include such things as antimatter, antigravity, ways to build real starships, time travel, and a theoretical basis for life after death consistent with the known laws of physics. The latter involves the idea that matter and energy warp space and time, and therefore the patterns that represent our thoughts and memories could be impressed on the fabric of spacetime.
The stories include aliens, spacecraft, the first man to travel to another star, and the last man to die of old age.
Books by Robert L. Forward:
Dragon's Egg
Flight of the Dragonfly
Rocheworld
Indistinguishable from Magic
Journal Entry 3 by phantomreader42 at Eastdale Mall in Montgomery, Alabama USA on Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Released on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 at Eastdale Mall in Montgomery, Alabama USA.
Left just inside the entrance to Sears, with a display of magic grills that cook without fire created by the mighty wizard George Foreman, about 2pm. :)
Left just inside the entrance to Sears, with a display of magic grills that cook without fire created by the mighty wizard George Foreman, about 2pm. :)
