Robert Heinlein combined time travel and suspended animation in The Door Into Summer and wrote about time dilation in Time For The Stars.
For a British TV treatment of suspended animation, see Adam Adamant Lives! and This Blog This Month and please excuse a shameless plug for a less-read blog. British TV, of course, has a well known treatment of time travel. See here.
I am rereading and posting about Poul Anderson's time dilation novel, Tau Zero. Of course we are familiar with Anderson's massive body of work on time travel. In some of Anderson's works about slower than light interstellar travel, there is not only time dilation but also "coldsleep." We usually find that Anderson covers every angle.
2 comments:
Suspended Animation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation
-Keith
Kaor, Paul!
If suspended animation for humans ever becomes practical, I can see it being useful for STL interstellar travel. A colonizing or even merely survey ships can carry larger numbers of people along--and, being in suspended animation, they would not need to be fed! Hence, less need to carry along massive amounts of supplies. Only a few persons, standing watch in rotation, would need to be awake at any single time.
Sean
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