How to Build a Time Machine by Paul Davies, Allen Lane,
£9.99, ISBN 0713995831
GREAT, I thought. Just tell me how to build that time machine. I’ll whiz off
to check out the grandchildren. . .
Paul Davies, doyen of popular books about time, has produced an easy read
with no index and nearly as many pictures as words (diagrams explain the quirks
of space-time, but why all the bad line drawings of scientists—Carl Sagan,
for example, a well-favoured man, looks like a vampire with caries?). Some of
the knottier physics “need not concern us here”, says Davies.…
