In a recent book we edited as executive editors, published online in the journal Cosmology for September 2014 (also available in hard copy from Amazon), we examine many issues associated with time, including its relationship to consciousness and the quantum physics of mind. Science has begun to broach a serious consideration of consciousness as it applies to topics as diverse as time travel, cosmology, general relativity, and neuroscience. The recent film Interstellar, directed by Christopher Nolan, with the prominent physicist Kip Thorne as executive producer and science consultant, delivers an imaginative exploration of the physics of space-time travel by connecting distant regions of space-time through a wormhole. Time dilation in the presence of strong gravitational fields, multiple dimensions, and the possibility of unification of gravity with quantum mechanics are all topics that parallel what the movie states or implies. As such, what may appear to many as science fiction in the movie is actually backed up by some hard science (despite the improbability of a spaceship and its crew surviving a trip through a wormhole). The role of consciousness and the existence of higher-number dimensions (a fifth and beyond) are all food for thought. It may indeed be the case that the role of consciousness in unification between general relativity and quantum physics will prove paramount. Section VII in our book deals with time travel through black holes and wormholes. Section IV deals with issues of reality, a reality that is certainly not what everyday experience provides.
Here we provide the foreword from The Time Machine of Consciousness.
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