Time Machine Hypothesis

Damien Broderick is an award-winning novelist, critic and theorist who holds a doctorate in the comparative discourse analysis of the sciences and humanities. He has published 75 books, some of them collaboratively or as editor. An Australian, he currently lives in San Antonio, Texas. His latest book is Consciousness and Science Fiction, also from Springer.

“If you have a fascination for the subject, then the book is for you. … He believes it would be favourable to a time traveller to remain detached and observe from a distance.” (John Silvester, Odyssey The e-Magazine of the British Interplanetary Society, Issue 66, 2020)“The Time Machine Hypothesis captures the wonder that so many readers of sf feel when they first learn that scientists in the real world actually do study the possibility of time travel and that there may be something to these fantastic stories after all.” (James Hamby, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 47, November, 2020)

• PART ONE: Spacetime Time.- Time Travel Unraveled.- The Scientific Basis for Time Machines.- Closed Timelike Loops.- Don’t Change the Past.- PART TWO: Time Machine Time.- The First Half Century (and a bit).- Empires of Time.- Behold the Time Machine.- Time’s Up.- Highways to the End of Time.- Windows Into the Past.- From Dinosaurs to Elsewhen.- Looping Time.- PART THREE: A Thought Experiment is Not a Theory.- In Search of Lost Time Machines.- Appendix: “The Dry Sauvages”.