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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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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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Personal Time and Transmigration Time Travel
PhilosophiesLewis argued that although paradoxes such as the famous Grandfather Paradox can be solved, only a limited set of time travel fiction is consistent.
Cei Maslen
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A Particle Swarm Optimization Backtracking Technique Inspired by Science-Fiction Time Travel
AI, 2022 Artificial intelligence techniques, such as particle swarm optimization, are used to solve problems throughout society. Optimization, in particular, seeks to identify the best possible decision within a search space.
Bob Fedor, Jeremy Straub
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Gliotransmitters Travel in Time and Space [PDF]
Neuron, 2014 The identification of the presence of active signaling between astrocytes and neurons in a process termed gliotransmission has caused a paradigm shift in our thinking about brain function. However, we are still in the early days of the conceptualization of how astrocytes influence synapses, neurons, networks, and ultimately behavior.
Araque, Alfonso +5 more
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ReS Futurae, 2018 The time travel genre might be considered as one the major science fiction themes, maybe a sub-genre in itself on account of the invariable characteristics of its variations in litterature, cinema - starting in the fifties- and more recently in ...
Clément Personnic, Yannick Kernec’h
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The Coincidences of Time Travel [PDF]
Philosophy of Science, 2003 In this paper I consider two objections raised by Nick Smith (1997) to an argument against the probability of time travel given by Paul Horwich (1995, 1987). Horwich argues that time travel leads to inexplicable and improbable coincidences. I argue that one of Smith's objections fails, but that another is correct.
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Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2007 This article addresses the cinematic treatment of the Middle Ages through an analysis of two recent mass-audience American films, Black Knight and Timeline, both of which feature time travel as a leading plot element.
John Engle
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Understanding temporal rhythms and travel behaviour at destinations: Potential ways to achieve more sustainable travel [PDF]
, 2013 This paper analyses the roles played by time in destination-based travel behaviour. It contrasts clock time's linear view of time with fragmented time, instantaneous time, fluid time and flow, time out and the multiple temporalities of tourism ...
Norgate, S. +18 more
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THE PHYSICS OF TIME TRAVEL: POSSIBILITIES AND PARADOXES
Worldwide Journal of Physics, 2022 This study investigates the scientific plausibility, paradoxes, and theoretical implications of time travel using a mixed-methods approach that integrates mathematical modeling, computational simulations, and philosophical interpretation.
Muhammad Anis-ur-Rehman +1 more
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