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Author: Nikk Effingham Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0198842503 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
There are various arguments for the metaphysical impossibility of time travel. Is it impossible because objects could then be in two places at once? Or is it impossible because some objects could bring about their own existence? In this book, Nikk Effingham contends that no such argument is sound and that time travel is metaphysically possible. His main focus is on the Grandfather Paradox: the position that time travel is impossible because someone could not go back in time and kill their own grandfather before he met their grandmother. In such a case, Effingham argues that the time traveller would have the ability to do the impossible (so they could kill their grandfather) even though those impossibilities will never come about (so they won't kill their grandfather). He then explores the ramifications of this view, discussing issues in probability and decision theory. The book ends by laying out the dangers of time travel and why, even though no time machines currently exist, we should pay extra special care ensuring that nothing, no matter how small or microscopic, ever travels in time.
Author: Nikk Effingham Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0198842503 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
There are various arguments for the metaphysical impossibility of time travel. Is it impossible because objects could then be in two places at once? Or is it impossible because some objects could bring about their own existence? In this book, Nikk Effingham contends that no such argument is sound and that time travel is metaphysically possible. His main focus is on the Grandfather Paradox: the position that time travel is impossible because someone could not go back in time and kill their own grandfather before he met their grandmother. In such a case, Effingham argues that the time traveller would have the ability to do the impossible (so they could kill their grandfather) even though those impossibilities will never come about (so they won't kill their grandfather). He then explores the ramifications of this view, discussing issues in probability and decision theory. The book ends by laying out the dangers of time travel and why, even though no time machines currently exist, we should pay extra special care ensuring that nothing, no matter how small or microscopic, ever travels in time.
Author: John Perritano Publisher: Norwood House Press ISBN: 1599535629 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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What do you want to be when you grow up? Do you want to be an astronaut? Read this book to find out more about real astronauts living and working on the International Space Station! While you discover what it is like to live in outer space, you will also learn about elapsed time and equivalent units of time. Applied key concepts include converting units of time by adding and subtracting, using a number line diagram, and reading an analog clock. Get ready to blast off!
Author: Pattimari Sheets-Cacciolfi Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0359606296 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 162
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A brilliant light coming through Peoria's bedroom window startles her to a trembling state - suddenly she is lifted up into a portal and time-travels into the era 1847 England from 2019 America. She can't get anyone to believe her in England until she goes back to 2019 and brings back one of her published books to prove she indeed lives in another era. Her friend, Jetty holds her hand one night and goes with her to England - they get lost in time-travel and struggle to find their way back home.
Author: Trisha Telep Publisher: Robinson ISBN: 1849012571 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
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Time travel romance is not the same thing as sci-fi romance, though some stories may be set in an imagined future; it is romantic fiction set in various different eras, usually from around the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. A woman may fall asleep in Central Park in the present to wake up in the arms of a Scottish laird in the sixteenth century. The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance contains 25 stories of adventure and love; settings include medieval Scotland, sixteenth-century England, the nineteenth-century 'Wild West'. Some stories are set in the present and a few in the future. Stories include an Elizabethan nobleman whisked into the present day, a troubled young woman who lands in the sixteenth century able to break a curse of lost love. Includes stories from: Nina Bangs, Jude Deveraux, Sandra Hill, Linda Howard, Lynn Kurland, Karen Marie Moning, and many more.
Author: Joyce Elgin Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1663231133 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 506
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THE ELGINS’ FAMILY AND FRIENDS, TRAVEL THROUGH TIME WITH THEM. IS THIS THE RIGHT THING TO DO? MAYBE NOT, BUT LET US TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THEY SEE IN THEIR FUTURE AS YOU READ THIS BOOK, ELGIN THREE, TIME TRAVEL.
Author: Mike Ashley Publisher: Robinson ISBN: 1472100263 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
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This thought-provoking collection not only takes us into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. These stories show what happen once you start to meddle with time and the paradoxes that might arise. It also raises questions about whether we understand time, and how we perceive it. Once we move outside the present day, can we ever return or do we move into an alternate world? What happens if our meddling with Nature leads to time flowing backwards, or slowing down or stopping all together? Or if we get trapped in a constant loop from which we can never escape. Is the past and future immutable or will we ever be able to escape the inevitable? These are just some of the questions that are raised in these challenging, exciting and sometimes amusing stories by Kage Baker, Simon Clark, Fritz Leiber, Christopher Priest, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, John Varley and many others.
Author: Michael Arruda Publisher: Crossroad Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages :
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When Adam answers his door and finds his deceased grandfather standing there looking as right as rain, he knows something isn't quite right. Is his grandfather back from the dead? The answer is far more complex and involves time travel, cover-ups, and ultimately murder in this time travel adventure tale by Stoker-nominated author Michael Arruda, written with the spirit of classic time travel movies in mind, films like THE TIME MACHINE (1960) and TIME AFTER TIME (1979).
Author: Elizabeth Howell Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1510749659 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 224
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Travel back in time with Doctor Who, the Terminator, the X-Men, and all your favorite time travelers! Science fiction is the perfect window into the possibilities and perils of time travel. What would happen if you went back in time and killed your own grandparent? If you knew how to stop a presidential assassination, would time travel allow you to make your wish come true? Can we use time travel as a tool to escape the destiny of our future or mistakes of the past? The Science of Time Travel explores time travel through your favorite science-fiction franchises, from the classic time travel paradoxes of Star Trek to the universe-crossing shenanigans of Doctor Who. Discover the real science behind questions such as: Can time travel really erase our past regrets like in A Christmas Carol? Is it worth killing people in the past to prevent a horrible future like in Terminator? What can we learn from living the same day over and over again like in Groundhog Day? Could time travel destroy our right to privacy like in Deja Vu? And so much more! It's time to fire up the DeLorean to 88 mph, jump into the TARDIS hiding in plain sight, or warp space with the USS Enterprise to explore what time travel means for us.
Author: Josh Lacey Publisher: Andersen Press Limited ISBN: 1787612848 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 154
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Discover two sides of history with the Time Travel Twins! Twins Scarlett and Thomas are learning about the Stone Age, so Grandad lets them use his time machine. Thomas wants to see a sabre-toothed tiger; Scarlett wants to see Stonehenge. They were thousands of years apart, what should they do? Go back in time twice of course! From perilous encounters with Neanderthals and woolly mammoths, to being roped into a mysterious ancient ceremony, the twins will need to keep their wits about them to survive their visits to the Stone Age! Also in the series: The Viking Attack The Roman Invasion
Author: Matthew Jones Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786478071 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 337
Book Description
In recent years numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and video games have featured time travel narratives, with characters jumping backward, forward and laterally through time. No rules govern time travel in these stories. Some characters move by machine, some by magic, others by unexplained means. Sometime travelers can alter the timeline, while others are prevented from causing temporal aberrations. The fluid forms of imagined time travel have fascinated audiences and prompted debate since at least the 19th century. What is behind our fascination with time travel? What does it mean to be out of one's own era? How do different media tell these stories and what does this reveal about the media's relationship to time? This collection of new essays--the first to address time travel across a range of media--answers these questions by locating time travel narratives within their cultural, historical and philosophical contexts. Texts discussed include Doctor Who, The Terminator, The Georgian House, Save the Date, Back to the Future, Inception, Source Code and others.
Author: Nikk Effingham
Author: Nikk Effingham
Author: John Perritano
Author: Pattimari Sheets-Cacciolfi
Author: Trisha Telep
Author: Joyce Elgin
Author: Mike Ashley
Author: Michael Arruda
Author: Elizabeth Howell
Author: Josh Lacey
Author: Matthew Jones