Cosmic Wormholes: The Search for Interstellar Shortcuts

by Paul Halpern

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452270294
• ISBN13: 9780452270299
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

It is never too late to read an old book

Although, the book was published in 1993, "COSMIC WORMHOLES" transcends time and space. The author zooms you to gateways in space that allow swift and immediate entry to the mysterious galaxies of the cosmos, far, far away, billions of miles away. You will revisit the past and explore the future on the magic carpet of this fascinating book. Extremelly well-written with a delicate sense of quantum physics, and...the feeling of "Jules Verne meets Sagan!" This volume enhances your understanding of time travel and the infinity of the universe. A treasure for such an affordable price.

interstellar travel could be around the corner

I love this book more than life itself. It talks about the possibility of using wormholes for rapid interstellar travel not just for astronauts but for people like you and me:tourists ,businessmen etc and the possibility of using them for time travel as well. I've had a fascination with Black Holes since I saw the Disney movie The Black Hole and what fascinated me about them is they could take you to another part of the universe or another universe altogether. Halpern gives perfect detail of wormholes theorized by Kip Thorne,Michael Morris,Ulvi Yurtsever and Matt Visser and starships flying through them and what it would be like to enter a wormhole and a time travel expedition by an astronaut and the possibility of mining black holes around the year 2500. The final chapter is the most interesting of all as Halpern imagines life in the year 2500 when interstellar travel through wormholes is as common as air travel is today. People enter a wormhole at the edge of the solar system and arrive at a space station at the center of the galaxy called Galaxy Central where there are thousands of womholes leading to all parts of the galaxy. If you're into Star Wars,Star Trek,Buck Rogers in the 25th century or just dream of visiting other worlds and other galaxies or travelling through time. This is the book for you!