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Does Lewis’ Theory of Causation Permit Time Travel?
Philosophies, 2021 David Lewis aimed to give an account of causation, and in particular, a semantics for the counterfactuals to which his account appeals, that is compatible with backwards causation and time travel. I will argue that he failed, but not for the reasons that
Phil Dowe
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Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 2020 Subjectivity, memory, and the invisible connections between individuals’ identities are all conspicuous themes within filmmaker Shane Carruth’s two award-winning indie sci-fi films, Primer (US 2004) and Upstream Color (US 2013).
Mayward, Joel
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Taoist Philosophy in Chinese Science Fiction: A Comparison between Zhuangzi and Broken Stars
Lensa: Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan, dan Budaya, 2021 Chinese science fiction has been attaining global visibility since Liu Cixin’s trilogy entitled Remembrance of Earth’s Past. The trilogy’s English translator Liu Yukun has edited and rendered a science-fiction anthology that comprises sixteen novellas ...
Aiqing Wang
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ReS Futurae, 2022 Time travel narratives or stories of travel to parallel worlds have offered countless experiments in narrative innovation and exploration of different temporalities. But beyond the deconstructed time, there is the immediacy and strangeness of the journey
Elaine Després
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Papers of the Regional Science Association, 1971 THIS PAPER UTILIZES THE CONCEPT OF URBAN VELOCITY FIELDS TO DERIVE A RELATIVELY SIMPLE PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING GOOD ESTIMATES OF TRAVEL TIMES BETWEEN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN URBAN AREAS. THE PROCEDURE DOES NOT MAKE USE OF ANY SHORTEST ROUTE ALGORITHMS BASED ON A NETWORK VIEW OF THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.
Shlomo Angel, Geoffrey M. Hyman
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If time travel to our location is possible, we do not live in a branching universe [PDF]
, 2017 This paper argues for the following disjunction: either we do not live in a world with a branching temporal structure, or backwards time travel is nomologically impossible, given the initial state of the universe, or backwards time travel to our space ...
Norton, James
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Man vs time: the features of сhrono-fiction in S. Krzhizhanovsky's story "Memories of the Future"
Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Філологія. Vìsnik Harkìvsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu ìmenì V.N. Karazìna. Serìâ Fìlologìâ., 2022 The purpose of the article is to clarify the features of сhrono-fiction in S. Krzhizhanovsky 's story "Memories of the Future". An understanding of the author's concept and plot function of time travel, a systematic description of different levels of ...
Tatiana Shekhovtsova, Veronika Yaskova
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023 Newton supported the idea of absolute time, unlike Leibniz, for which time is only a relation between events and cannot be expressed independently, a statement in concordance with the relativity of space-time. Eternalism claims that the past and the future exist in a real sense, going to the idea that time is a dimension similar to spatial dimensions,
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, 2001 We define the time travel paradox in physical terms and prove its existence by constructing an explicit example. We argue further that in theories -- such as general relativity -- where the spacetime geometry is subject to nothing but differential ...
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Changing, Annulling and Otherwising the Past
Philosophies, 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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