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, 2014 Is time travel just a confusing plot device deployed by science fiction authors and Hollywood filmmakers to amaze and amuse? Or might empirical data prompt a scientific hypothesis of time travel?
W. Carroll, John, John W. Carroll
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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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Is mental time travel real time travel? [PDF]
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 2020 Episodic memory (memories of the personal past) and prospecting the future (anticipating events) are often described as mental time travel (MTT). While most use this description metaphorically, we argue that episodic memory may allow for MTT in at least some robust sense.
Michael Barkasi, Melanie G. Rosen
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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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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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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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Travelling in time with COPD [PDF]
Thorax, 2010 In the last 8 years the FEV1 (forced expiratory volume in 1 s) of a ‘typical’ patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has fallen by ∼400 ml. However, the knowledge of those caring for this hypothetical patient has grown rapidly in this same period and Thorax has played a vital role in this change of fortune.
J R, Hurst, P M A, Calverley
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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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On Efficient "Time Travel" in Gödel Spacetime [PDF]
, 2010 Here, we show that one may "time travel" in Gödel spacetime with less total acceleration than was previously known. This answers a question posed by Malament (1985, 1986, 1987)
Manchak, John Byron, John Byron Manchak
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