Build Your Own Time Machine [Hardcover]

'Clegg's latest will engage scientists and lay readers with a thorough, level-headed, reader-friendly treatment of controversial and complex material.' --Publishers Weekly

'Clegg follows the footsteps of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, Steven Hawking's A Brief History of Time and Timothy Ferris's Coming of Age in the Milky Way.' --Kirkus Reviews

'Endlessly fascinating' The Independent [on Infinity]. -- 'With this book in hand, we have all we need to set off on our next flight with our eyes open to the sheer wonder of what is involved.' --Alain de Botton [on Inflight Science]

There is no physical law to prevent time travel - nothing in physics to say that it is not possible. So surely having a time machine is just a matter of ...time In Build Your Own Time Machine, Brian Clegg takes inspiration from his childhood heroes of Doctor Who and H. G. Wells to explain the nature of time. How do we understand it and why measure it the way we do? How did the theories of one man change the way it was perceived by the world? And why wouldn't H. G. Wells' time machine have worked? By clearly explaining the most famous of Einstein's theories, those of special and general relativity, Clegg applies them to the laws of time to show the real science of time travel and how possible it really is.

Brian Clegg was born in Lancashire. He read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University and has an MA in Operational Research (a discipline developed during the Second World War to apply mathematics and probability to warfare) at Lancaster University. In 1994 he set up his own consultancy, whose clients include the BBC, the Met Office, Sony, GlaxoSmithKline, the Treasury, and many others. His popular science books including Inflight Science and Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable.