Wormholes are a sci-fi trope that everybody has heard of, a swirly (often blue-colored) tube that lets the protagonist jump between large distances or to other worlds. Of course, wormholes of this type are pure …
The Grandfather Paradox is a famous time travel paradox in which traveling to the past creates a logical contradiction by changing events that have already occurred. The classic example involves a person traveling back in …
The Time Traveler’s Almanac is the latest in a long line of thrilling science fiction literature that deals with the absorbing genre of time travel. Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, the world-renowned anthologists have …
A Predestination Paradox is a time travel paradox in which a person travels back in time and unintentionally becomes the cause of the very event they were trying to prevent. Instead of changing history, their …
While we are increasingly being asked to refine our view of the world and the universe in which we live, one thing that we hold as constant is time. People often say things like “you …
The Bootstrap Paradox is a time-travel paradox in which an object, person, or piece of information becomes trapped in an endless cause-and-effect loop with no identifiable point of origin. Also known as an ontological paradox, …
Time is woven into everything that happens in the universe. Stars are born and die, planets orbit their suns, civilizations rise and fall, and each of us experiences a world that seems to move relentlessly …
Time travel isn’t just science fiction anymore. Thanks to Einstein’s theories, wormholes, and quantum mechanics, serious physicists have spent decades exploring whether it could actually happen. Whether through bending space-time or jumping dimensions, the concept …
Every time we look into space, we are looking into the past. The Sun appears to us as it was about eight minutes ago, because that’s how long its light takes to reach Earth. Look …
Time travel paradoxes are logical contradictions that arise when travelling backwards through time appears to violate the normal laws of cause and effect. Some involve changing the past in ways that make your own actions …
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