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  2. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses [1] —in other words, a strategy applied in the delivering of a narrative to relay information to the audience and to make the narrative more complete, complex, or engaging. Some scholars also call such a technique a ...

  3. Tipler cylinder - Wikipedia

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    A Tipler cylinder, also called a Tipler time machine, is a hypothetical object theorized to be a potential mode of time travel —although results have shown that a Tipler cylinder could only allow time travel if its length were infinite or with the existence of negative energy.

  4. Turing test - Wikipedia

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    The interrogator is limited to using the responses to written questions to make the determination. [1] The Turing test, originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1950, [2] is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

  5. The Time Machine - Wikipedia

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    The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels approximately 800,806 years into the future. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and ...

  6. Quantum mechanics of time travel - Wikipedia

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    Quantum mechanics requires physicists to solve equations describing how probabilities behave along closed timelike curves (CTCs), theoretical loops in spacetime that might make it possible to travel through time. [1][2][3][4] In the 1980s, Igor Novikov proposed the self-consistency principle. [5] According to this principle, any changes made by ...

  7. J. Richard Gott - Wikipedia

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    Paul Davies, How to build a time machine, 2002, Penguin popular science, ISBN 0-14-100534-3 gives a very brief non-mathematical description of Gott's alternative; the specific setup is not intended by Gott as the best-engineered approach to moving backwards in time, rather, it is a theoretical argument for a non-wormhole means of time travel.

  8. The Technicolor Time Machine - Wikipedia

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    The Technicolor Time Machine is a 1967 science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison.It is a time travel story with comedic elements, which satirizes Hollywood.The story first appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine, where it was serialized in three parts in the March–May 1967 issues, under the title "The Time-Machined Saga."

  9. Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel - Wikipedia

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    Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (stylised as FAQ About Time Travel) is a 2009 British science fiction comedy film directed by Gareth Carrivick from a script by Jamie Mathieson, starring Chris O'Dowd, Dean Lennox Kelly, Marc Wootton and Anna Faris. The film follows two avid science fiction fans (O'Dowd and Wootton) and their snarky ...