Thursday, February 2, 2012

What are the different represented forms of time travel in popular culture?

There are many different movies/books/etc. that cover the topic of time travel, but every one seems to have different rules involved. For example, in Back to the Future actions in the past can change future outcomes. Help me find other rules for time travel!What are the different represented forms of time travel in popular culture?1) A famous rule for time travel is called the grandfather paradox.

This rule states that you cannot go back in time and kill your grandfather. This would have prevented your parents being born and thus you would not have been born.



2) The Many-worlds interpretation is a theory that states once you go back in time you create a whole different world, that will never interact with future worlds, you create a new branch of history or alternate universe



3) Novikov self-consistency principle - is a theory (and this was illustrated in a cool version of the Twilight zone- original series) where one can go back in time, but cannot change the outcome. IN the twilight zone show, the man tried to go back in time to kill Hitler, but as he was about to fire the gun, 2 nazis came into the room and stopped him.

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