Book Talk
Subject – Time Week
Books – The Time Machine, Time Travel in Einstein’s Universe & The Yoga of Time Travel
Time Travel — you know you wish you could do it. Would you look into the future at spy on the past? This week I take a look at three books themed on time travel. I move from H.G. Wells introductory book The Time Machine through our scientific understanding of the possibilities of time travel and into the limits our minds set when we create and define time in space.
Broken Social Scene
Little Joy
Junior Boys
Tame Impala
Tom Waits
Jason Collett
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