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The Dark Arrow of Time: A Scientific Novel (Science and Fiction)

The Dark Arrow of Time: A Scientific Novel (Science and Fiction)

Current price: $19.99
Publication Date: November 27th, 2017
Publisher:
Springer
ISBN:
9783319674858
Pages:
163
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Description

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

About the Author

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".