{"id":3361,"date":"2022-02-03T22:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T22:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2022-02-03T22:58:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T22:58:02","slug":"some-thoughts-on-time-travel-in-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wsf\/some-thoughts-on-time-travel-in-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts on Time Travel in SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since It is the day after Groundhog day, here is an interesting video that discusses a number of different modes of time travel in Science Fiction. Definately worth a watch:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Time Travel in Fiction Rundown\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d3zTfXvYZ9s?start=421&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My personal favorite time travel story is a short story called &#8220;The Merchant and the Alchemist&#8217;s Gate&#8221; by Ted Chiang which I read last term for the &#8220;Nature of Time&#8221; FYWS. Time travel in that story takes the Harry Potter esque time travel to the extreme, calling into question our free will whether or not we engage in time travel.<\/p>\n<p>There are also tonnes of questions about causality (and it&#8217;s possible violation) rising out of the fields of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity which is very exciting. Does time proceed in one specific direction (forward)? if it does does that mean that backward time travel is impossible? if entropic time is not a universal law, what would complete time-reversal be possible? lots of SF material here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since It is the day after Groundhog day, here is an interesting video that discusses a number of different modes of time travel in Science Fiction. Definately worth a watch: My personal favorite time travel story is a short story called &#8220;The Merchant and the Alchemist&#8217;s Gate&#8221; by Ted Chiang which I read last term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}