Time Travel and Warp Drives: A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space

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Sci—fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it starts. But for those of us not lucky enough to live in a science—fictional universe, are these ideas merely flights of fancy—or...