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So you want to Build a Time Machine: The Physics of the Impossible - PHYS108
Modern physics and science fiction have given rise to a wide range of fantastical concepts that have entered everyday vocabulary and the media, including time travel, teleportation, the 'warp drives' of intergalactic travel, parallel universes, perpetual motion, the Higgs 'God particle', the arrow of time, force fields and more. What does modern physics have to say about these flights of imagination? Are they urban myths, or is it indeed possible to build a time machine, or travel faster than light to distant stars? This unit explores science at the border of science and science fiction, and in doing so introduces the extraordinary ideas that the theories of modern physics provides, to enable us understand what is possible, probable or impossible.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | 2015 - Next offered in 2015 |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr James Downes |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty of Science |
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