Build Your Own Time Machine

Brian Clegg was born in Lancashire. He read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University before doing an MA at Lancaster University. His books have been translated into several languages and include Before the Big Bang: The Prehistory of the Universe, A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable and Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from your Aeroplane Window. He has lectured at the Royal Institution in London and has spoken at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He runs www.popularscience.co.uk and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Brian lives in Wiltshire with his wife and twin children.

'Brian Clegg conjectures on the totally conjectural world of time and space travel and brings it all beautifully down to earth. Brilliant.' Johnny Ball 'Clegg proves himself to be a lucid guide to the often complex science of time travel. His ambitious book covers more or less the whole of twentieth-century physics from relativity to string theory' Times Literary Supplement 'Clegg's enjoyable exposition of how human time travel might be possible - give[s] some unusually lucid scientific explanations ' Guardian 'Follows in the footsteps of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, Steven Hawking's A Brief History of Time and Timothy Ferris's Coming of Age in the Milky Way' Kirkus Reviews 'Clegg's latest will engage scientists and lay readers with a thorough, level-headed, reader-friendly treatment of controversial and complex material' Publishers Weekly