Space & Time

Space & Time — page 3 — Published by Creative Education P O Box 227 Mankato Minnesota 56002 Creative Education is an imprint of The Creative Company www thecreativecompany us Design and production by Blue Design Art direction by Rita Marshall Printed in the United States of America Photographs by Getty Images Apic Andreas Cellarius DEA PICTURE LIBRARY De Agostini Tony Hallas Ivan Petrovich Keler-Viliandi NASA Time Life Pictures Jean-Luc PETIT Gamma-Rapho SSPL STRINGER AFP Universal History Archive Bruno Vincent Warner Bros iStockphoto Evgeny Terentev NASA NASA NASA ESA F Paresce INAF-IASF Bologna Italy R O’Connell University of Virginia Charlottesville Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee NASA STScl Magellan U Arizona D Clowe et al Cover and folio illustration 2011 Alex Ryan Copyright 2013 Creative Education International copyright reserved in all countries No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Whiting Jim Space and time by Jim Whiting p cm Mysteries of the universe Includes bibliographical references and index Summary An examination of the science behind the abstract and physical concepts of space and time including relevant theories and history making discoveries as well as topics of current and future research ISBN 978-1-60818-192-6 hard cover ISBN 978-1-56660-142-9 eBook 1 Space and time Juvenile literature 2 Relativity Physics Juvenile literature I Title QC173 59 S65W45 2012 530 11 dc23 2011040146 First Edition 987654321

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Space & Time — page 5 — An English reﬂecting telescope of the 1930s

Space & Time — page 6 — TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 9 CHAPTERS FIGURING OUT WHERE WE ARE 10 DEFINING TIME AND SPACE 17 UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES 29 THE FUTURE AND PAST OF SPACETIME 37 SPACETIME ASIDES THE LONGEST YEAR IN HISTORY 21 THE FIRST TIME TRAVELERS 27 MC FLYING TO THE FUTURE 41 EYE IN SPACE 44 ENDNOTES 46 WEB SITES 47 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 47 INDEX 48

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