David Toomey
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Inside of a Dog and The Soul of an Octopus, a fascinating, charming, and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play that shows how life--at its most fundamental level--is playful. In Kingdom of Play, critically acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on Australia's Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in the Kalahari...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The story of physicists quest to answer a mind-boggling question: How can we travel through time? Since H.G. Wells's 1895 classic The Time Machine, readers of science fiction have puzzled over the paradoxes of time travel. But in the 1990s, a group of theoretical physicists at Caltech undertook a serious investigation of the possibility of pastward time travel and concluded that it might be possible, inspiring a serious and sustained study that engaged...
