The Dark Arrow of Time

Massimo Villata

ISBN 10: 3319674854 / ISBN 13: 9783319674858

Verlag: Springer International Publishing AG, CH, 2017

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9783319674858

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Blends adventure, love, suspense, magic, pathos, and mystery in a rich scientific novel full of unexpected twists and turns

Offers new scientific ideas on interplanetary voyages and time travel

Suggests an alternative theory on antimatter which holds that traveling in time is possible

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Massimo Villata is an Italian astrophysicist and science fiction writer. He graduated from the University of Turin with honors in physics and at the end of his PhD won a competition at the Observatory of Turin, where he still works today. His main field of research is extragalactic astronomy. He specializes in the study of blazars (extremely energetic and variable active galactic nuclei), and since 2000 he has been President of the International Consortium of Optical and Radio Telescopes (WEBT – Whole Earth Blazar Telescope). He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications and also employs his knoweldge in the writing of science fiction novels under the pseudonym Max Wells, inspired by the famous Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell. He terms this genre “the scientific novel”.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Dark Arrow of Time
Verlag: Springer International Publishing AG, CH
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: New
Auflage: 1st ed. 2017.