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  2. Time travel in fiction - Wikipedia

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    A time slip is a plot device in fantasy and science fiction in which a person, or group of people, seem to travel through time by unknown means. [12] [13] The idea of a time slip has been used in 19th century fantasy, an early example being Washington Irving's 1819 Rip Van Winkle, where the mechanism of time travel is an extraordinarily long sleep. [14]

  3. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    A children's cartoon where, using books, three children travel through time and space. Based on the books by Jon Scieszka. 2006 2011 Torchwood: Russell T Davies Chris Chibnall Jane Espenson John Fay: Humans and aliens from different periods in time start to come to Earth by means of a rift in the space/time continuum. (Spin-off from Doctor Who ...

  4. Time travel - Wikipedia

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    Time travel is a concept in philosophy and fiction, particularly science fiction. In fiction, time travel is typically achieved through the use of a device known as a time machine. The idea of a time machine was popularized by H. G. Wells's 1895 novel The Time Machine. [1] It is uncertain whether time travel to the past would be physically ...

  5. Chronology protection conjecture - Wikipedia

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    Other proposals that allow for backwards time travel but prevent time paradoxes, such as the Novikov self-consistency principle, which would ensure the timeline stays consistent, or the idea that a time traveler is taken to a parallel universe while their original timeline remains intact, do not qualify as "chronology protection".

  6. Tipler cylinder - Wikipedia

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    In "The Miracle of Christmas", Episode 2.11 of the American TV series Timeless, a Tipler cylinder is mentioned as being added to an upgraded time machine. In season 2 episode 14 of "Gabby Duran & the Unsittables - Zeke to the Future" a Tipler's Infinity Cylinder is mentioned as a possible time travel device.

  7. Paratime series - Wikipedia

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    The means of traveling through timelines is a flying saucer-shaped "conveyor" [note 1] using the Ghaldron-Hesthor field generator, which was developed via a fortuitous fusion of attempts to develop faster than light space travel with ones attempting to explain certain psychic phenomena. Conveyors are fixed in place, which means that as they ...

  8. List of alternate history fiction - Wikipedia

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    Based on the book with the same title, the show portrays a 1962 in which the Axis powers won World War II and divided the Americas. 2016 11.22.63: Based on the book 11/22/63 by Stephen King, in which the main character goes back in time trying to save John F. Kennedy and altering the course of events. 2017 Neo Yokio

  9. Novikov self-consistency principle - Wikipedia

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    Outer Wilds (2019): A video game involving time travel which does not follow the principle, causing a game over if the player experiments to test it. All time travel in the Hallmark Channel original series The Way Home follows the Novikov self-consistency principle. Two of the main characters can travel backwards in time by jumping into a pond ...