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Philosophies, 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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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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The Close Possibility of Time Travel
Philosophies, 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
Universe, 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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Images, 2021 Czechoslovakian film fantasy has its own canon comprised of various works, the successes of which were recorded by press industries around the world. They picked up various threads, but the most interesting one seems to be the theme of time travel,
Mariusz Guzek
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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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Philosophies, 2022 Assume that, even with a time machine, Tim does not have the ability to travel to the past and kill Grandfather. Why would that be? And what are the implications for traditional debates about freedom?
Andrew Law, Ryan Wasserman
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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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Paradoxes of Time Travel in Juliusz Machulski’s Cinema
Perspektywy Kultury, 2023 The subject of time travel has been scarcely explored in Polish cinema. How Much Does The Trojan Horse Weigh? (2008) and EmbaSSy (2013) directed by Juliusz Machulski, a shrewd observer and ruthless critic of the Polish social situation over the past ...
Magdalena Grabias
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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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