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It goes without saying that because im here, I do have a genuine interest in the idea of time travel. However, my knowledge of related matter's is almost non existent, which as you may appreciate makes it hard to interact in discussions.

Can anyone please recomend some Basic reading or web sites I should look at to better enable myself to at least better understand what I read here. Any help or suggestion's would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks

Rob

P.S. Ive read "Brief hist time" & "Black holes & baby uni" & found them to be mostly understandable, Unless my idea of Understandable is wrong (Ha).
 
I found this site through Yahoo. Go to: Yahoo ] Science ] Alternative. From there you can go to Time Travel where there are a bunch of sites similar to this, or you can go to other alternative sites that talk on related subjects.

I've had a number of specific questions answered at Mad Scientist (www.madsci.org) You can use their search engine with a few key words to get answers to more traditional questions that form the basis of questions on time travel.

Alta-vista is a pretty good search engine. It usually comes up with way too many hits, but if you add enough words you can usually get a few good sights either discussing basic science or more controversial theories.

Ultimately you would need to understand both Quantum Mechanics and Relativity theory. Even without understanding them, you could learn about some of the basic math and formulae that underlie these theories. Relativity math is much easier to deal with than quantum mechanical wave functions, however.

I never took a formal course in relativity, but we did do some of the math in one physics course. I took a couple of courses in Quantum Mechanics and got through only by the skin of my teeth: very difficult stuff!

If you really want to understand, then you probably need to read a book on the subject, preferrably an introductory college text book. A lot of the "popular science" type books tend to take a number of leaps of logic based on math that most readers don't comprehend, so they aren't fully aware of the leaps that have been taken.
 
Since "nolo" already gave you some very good web references, I'll give you one book.

"A Brief History of Time" by Dr. Stephen Hawking.

It's written for the layman, is very easy to understand, and is a short quick read.

He covers Cosmology and Relativity (and Quantum Theory to a lesser degree) in a way anyone can get a handle on the basics with.

It is always my first recommendation for someone who MAY be overwhelmed by relativity. After the first 30 pages, the concept is very clear.

It's available on www.amazon.com

Enjoy.
 
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