Magazine article
Time-Traveling for Dummies
Slate
13 Aug 2009
Abstract
A physicist looks at The Time Traveler’s Wife.
You might say we’re living in a golden age of time travel. From television shows like Heroes, Lost, and Flash Forward to this summer’s Star Trek movie, punctures in the space/time continuum are turning up all around us. As a physicist—and, perhaps redundantly, a science-fiction geek—I’m particularly sensitive to the pleasures of these mind-bending narratives. I’m also sensitive to their flaws. Most fictional accounts of time travel are rife with paradoxes, parallel universes, and plot holes that violate strict physical laws: Instead of exploring the limits of our understanding, they make a mockery of them. [1st paragraph]
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- Title
- Time-Traveling for Dummies
- Creators
- David M Goldberg - Drexel University, Physics
- Publication Details
- Slate
- Resource Type
- Magazine article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Identifiers
- 991021906512204721