Having worked for the Harvard Crimson and freelanced in Boston, he moved to Minneapolis, where he helped found a short-lived weekly newspaper, Metropolis. Three of these books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages.īorn in New York City, USA, Gleick attended Harvard College, graduating in 1976 with a degree in English and linguistics. James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future. He investigates the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. James Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea that becomes part of contemporary culture-from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Jorge Luis Borges to Woody Allen. It was an era when a host of forces was converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological: the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book and an international sensation: The Time Machine. The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young H. Omniscience doesn’t require them.From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. A god outside of time would not have memories. When we think, we seem to think consecutively, one thought leading to another, in timely fashion, forming memories all the while. Does he act? Does he even think? Without sequential time, thought-a process-is hard to imagine. But if you believe in an interventionist god, what does that leave for him to do? A changeless being is hard for us mortals to imagine. For Him, the story does not have a beginning, middle, and end. Either way, one might believe that God sees it entire. Creation is a tapestry, or an Einsteinian block universe. He is not one-thing-after-another, but all-at-once. Does that mean that all our mortal time and history is, for God, a mere instant-complete and entire? For God outside of time, God in eternity, time does not pass events do not occur step by step cause and effect are meaningless.

“Time is a feature of creation, and the creator remains apart from it, transcendent over it.

Time Travel by James Gleick