Five Popular Talks
Over the last ten or fifteen years I’ve done a number of slide talks at Balticon, Philcon, & Farpoint, three local science fiction conventions. A number of these have been relatively heavy on the physics – within the context of a science fiction convention of course – and I thought it might be fun to post them. As Rod Sterling might have put it, presented for your consideration:
| Title | Year | Description | Megabytes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faster than light | 2007 | How to travel faster than light, from a physics point of view.
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4.1 |
| The future of time travel | 2002 | This was about time travel in science fiction, with a few mentions of the relevant physics. Areas covered:
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3.0 |
| How to build a (real) time machine | 2009 |
See also this year’s Philcon talk: How to build a time machine, by Goldberg and Blomquist. |
11.1 (!) |
| Physics of time travel | 2003 | Time in special relativity, tachyons, frame-dragging, general relativistic time machines, paradox management, chaos, arrows of time, why study time travel… | 1.4 |
| Quantum time | 2008 | A popular discussion of my dissertation. | 1.5 |
Tags: Faster than light, General relativity, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Mechanics, Science Fiction, Time
Popular, Science Fiction, Time Machines | John Ashmead | 
November 29, 2009 11:51 am
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