Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. CHAPTER ONE. PLAYING THE GAME 1
4. I. POTTER PHYSICS
5. CHAPTER TWO. HARRY POTTER AND THE GREAT CONSERVATION LAWS 13
6. CHAPTER THREE. WHY HOGWARTS IS SO DARK 27
7. CHAPTER FOUR. FANTASTIC BEASTS AND HOW TO DISPROVE THEM 38
8. II. SPACE TRAVEL
9. CHAPTER FIVE. WHY COMPUTERS GET BETTER AND CARS CAN’T (MUCH) 59
10. CHAPTER SIX. VACATIONS IN SPACE 71
11. CHAPTER SEVEN. SPACE COLONIES 86
12. CHAPTER EIGHT. THE SPACE ELEVATOR 115
13. CHAPTER NINE. MANNED INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL 130
14. CHAPTER TEN. ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS 145
15. CHAPTER ELEVEN. SPECULATIVE PROPULSION SYSTEMS 157
16. CHAPTER TWELVE. INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL AND RELATIVITY 176
17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN FASTER-THAN-LIGHT TRAVEL AND TIME TRAVEL. 188
18. III. WORLDS AND ALIENS
19. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. DESIGNING A HABITABLE PLANET 217
20. CHAPTER FIFTEEN. THE SCIENTIFIC SEARCH FOR SPOCK 242
21. CHAPTER SIXTEEN. THE MATHEMATICS OF TALKING WITH ALIENS 255
22. IV. YEAR GOOGOL
23. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. THE SHORT-TERM SURVIVAL OF HUMANITY 275
24. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. WORLD-BUILDING 292
25. CHAPTER NINETEEN. DYSON SPHERES AND RINGWORLDS 303
26. CHAPTER TWENTY. ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS AND THE KARDASHEV SCALE 326
27. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. A GOOGOL YEARS 336
28. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 351
29. APPENDIX: NEWTON’S THREE LAWS OF MOTION 353
30. BIBLIOGRAPHY 359
31. INDEX 371