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Changing, Annulling and Otherwising the Past

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2021
Despite a growing number of models argument for the logical possibility of changing the past there continues to be resistance to and confusion surrounding the possibility of changing the past.
G. C. Goddu
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2021
Causal loops are a recurring feature in the philosophy of time travel, where it is generally agreed that they are logically possible but may come with a theoretical cost. This paper introduces an unfamiliar set of causal loop cases involving knowledge or
Stephanie Rennick
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The Close Possibility of Time Travel

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2023
This article discusses the possibility of some outlandish tropes from time travel fiction, such as people reversing in age as they time travel or the universe being destroyed because a time traveler kills their ancestor.
Nikk Effingham
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Closed Timelike Curves, Singularities and Causality: A Survey from Gödel to Chronological Protection

open access: yesUniverse, 2021
I give a historical survey of the discussions about the existence of closed timelike curves in general relativistic models of the universe, opening the physical possibility of time travel in the past, as first recognized by K.
Jean-Pierre Luminet
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Travel data collection using a smart phone for the estimation of multimodal travel times of intra-city public transportation [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Civil Engineering, 2022
All the available modes of travel and their respective travel parameters must be known to the commuters before their trip. Otherwise they may either spend more money or more time for the trip. In addition to this, recent pandemic, rapidly spreading novel
Kanala Teja Vinay Kumar Reddy   +1 more
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Exterminous Hypertime

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2021
This paper investigates ‘exterminous hypertime’, a model of time travel in which time travellers can change the past in virtue of there being two dimensions of time. This paper has three parts.
Nikk Effingham
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Insight on Some Interesting Models of Parallel Universe

open access: yesPhysics Education Research Journal, 2022
The theoretical perspective on universe is the most intriguing subject of discussion. Human's curiosity made them wandered about the origin and form of the universe and because of the attempt to find those answers the idea of the parallel universe came ...
Rimo Sarkar
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Time, travel and infection [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Medical Bulletin, 2004
The collapse of geographical space over the last 200 years has had profound effects on the circulation of human populations and on the transfer of infectious diseases. Three examples are used to illustrate the process: (a) the impact of the switch from sail to steamships in importing measles into Fiji over a 40-year period; (b) changes in measles ...
Cliff, AD, Haggett, P
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Lectures on faster-than-light travel and time travel

open access: yesSciPost Physics Lecture Notes, 2019
These lecture notes were prepared for a 25-hour course for advanced undergraduate students participating in Perimeter Institute's Undergraduate Summer Program.
Barak Shoshany
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The Future: Missing Children, Time Travel, and Post-Nuclear Apocalypse in the Dark Series (Netflix)

open access: yesArts, 2023
The concept of the post-apocalypse, a cultural imagination of nuclear energy, the temporality of trauma, and time travel are linked herein in order to arrive at a political reading of the Dark series.
Tomasz Łysak
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