Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
for beginners
Multi-directional travel
Improbable
Timey-Wimey Stuff
Watch:
Flight of the Navigator
(Randal Kleiser, 1986)
Woah, That’s Heavy
Einstein’s Theory of General
Relativity:
Watch:
Interstellar
(Christopher Nolan, 2014)
Tunnels through Time
How to travel back in time?
…Find a shortcut!
Read:
Wormholes, Time Machines
and the Weak Energy Condition
(Kip Thorne (et al.), 1988)
Paradoxes to Ponder
1. Causal Loop
• A future event is the cause of a past event Watch:
which is the cause of the future event The Terminator
(James Cameron, 1984)
2. “Grandfather Paradox“
• Altering the past causes a contradiction Watch:
in the present Back to the Future
(Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
Time Cops
Alternative realities
vs
Temporal consistency
Stephen Hawking’s
Chronology Protection
Agency
vs
TimeCop
A Timely Conclusion
Assignment:
Analyze the extent to which sci-fi movies obey the
scientific “rules” of time travel, with reference to
physical approaches, restrictions and paradoxes
1,500 words
2. Thorne, Kip (et al.), 1988 - “Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition”.
Retrieved from: http://authors.library.caltech.edu/9262/1/MORprl88.pdf
4. Wells, H.G., 1895 - The Time Machine: New Web Edition, Fourmilab.ch, 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/wells/timemach/html/
5. DiBella, N, The Big Questions: Lecture Notes 5: Is Time Travel Possible? Summer 2008.
(MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Retrieved from: https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/physics/the-big-questions/lecture-notes-and-
videos/MITHFH_bigquest_lec5.pdf
6. Neto, D. (2015, April 10). David Neto: Black Holes & Time Travel, TEDxOStateU [Video file].
Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8khcH5Lqxgk