Preface

The self-creating universe and other absurdities

Tennis, tea, and time travel

Moving heaven and earth

Let there be light

Ether dreams

Crisis in physics

Einstein to the rescue

Stretching time

Star trips and squeezed space

The same time?

Past, present, future, and

elsewhere

Faster than light?

Is everything relative?

A problem of gravity

Into the black hole

Einstein's universe

Appendix: Time dilation

Glossary.