What If Time Travel Is Possible?

Ultimately it is stressed that decisions have impact on the unknown, providing comfort as it implements two principles; that undesirable future events are able to be prevented and fixed and that desirable future events are able to be created. The comforting nature of these time travel principles illustrate that the notion of control alleviates fears as sublime ‘what if?’ scenarios are made possible and attainable.

Director Robert Zemeckis has many trademarks in his movies such as his protagonist getting in a bar fight, rarely using a fixed camera, and often casting the same actors in various movies (Robert Zemeckis). Many of Zemeckis’s movies, like Forrest Gump, Castaway, Back to the Future, and Back to the Future Part II cover years long time periods throughout the course of the movie. These four movies all have in common the fact that because of the long amount of time that the films cover and a change in history occurs because of an event that happens or the discovery of something new. When these events happen, they usually change the future. Changes made to the future are a result of time perception throughout the movie. Director Robert Zemeckis uses different theories on the relativity of time to show that humans should not constrain themselves to the world they live in, or to their past, because altering time may change history as history is currently known.

In the story Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradburry shows that time travel is possible. In the Article The Physics of Time Travel by Brad Stone suggests that time travel is impossible. In the Story Sound of Thunder the author writes about Eckel having a journey through time travel.

In “A Sound of Thunder” the use of time travel and how it affects the plot line is preferable, as it helps with the character development and overall theme. How time travel, in correlation to science fiction, is often a quick way, just to make a story science fiction, nonetheless it was truley well done in this short story and was consistent throughout the entire story, “First a day and then a night and then a day and then a night, then it was day-night-day-night. A week, a month, a year, a decade! A.D. 2055. A.D. 2019. 1999! 1957! Gone! The Machine roared.” (Page 289-Ray Bradbury). Unlike “A Sound of Thunder” in “Nethergrave” There were minimal elements of science fiction, and it only truly came into play towards the end of the story,

I think the author wrote the to tell how different our world would be with time travel and to entertain us. I know it is to entertain because it is not real so it can’t be to inform. I also know it's not to persuade because it's to telling you to go to try time travel. I know its not to explain because it's not explaining anything.

Another example of this would be In the “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury a group of guys use a time machine to go hunting for dinosaurs but instead they alter the future and it causes the death of one of the guys. Before they leave to the past we see a sign that says “TIME SAFARI,

People are influenced by decisions made in the past. Every situation that a person comes upon can change what happens in the future and because of human's ability to choose we can gain or lose from it. In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, decisions made by himself and others around him in the past alter the fathers future.

When time is considered being a straight progression of events, it can be argued from a hard deterministic standpoint that there is no possibility for the slightest alteration of the events to occur due to the fact that each event in the causal chain is responsible for causing the event that follows. In science fiction, such themes surrounding time would include travel and alteration of the timeline. This essay aims to show how with a progression-based perspective on time, hard determinism must be found as the correct view on sequences of events, and the idea of an alteration of timeline is found to be logically impossible. To fully display this the Futurama episode Roswell That Ends Well will be utilized to adequately describe how events that happen are required to happen, and are unavoidable in their existence seeing as they exist as a part of the causal chain. The short story “A Sound of Thunder”, written by Ray Bradbury, will also be discussed.

Time travel is often thought of as an incredible journey towards a future of uncertainties and of great technological expectations. It is also associated with the curiosity of how one might end up doing with one’s own life. And if time travel were possible, one would opt into looking at one’s future self. Time travel is not only associated with the two mentioned expectations, but it is also thought of as a means for personal gain.

If I could time travel and go into the past, I’d go back in time and travel to Germany. From there I’d go into Hitler’s school and help him not get kicked out of art school because at the time he was not into politics. From there I believe that’d change to events of the future, The Holocaust and World War II. These events won’t happen because Hitler got into politics after he was kicked out of the university he was studying at. Not only that but, a lot of other things would be changed to. There’s really no telling what would change but here’s my interpretation.

As Eckels is preparing for the hunt of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the hunting guide Travis explains that if he steps off The Path, he could completely reverse history. The Path consists of anti-gravity metal that floats six inches above the ground of Earth. It is up high, so to not touch the grass, flowers, or trees. If someone falls off, there is a penalty, because the owners of Time Safari Inc. are afraid that the repercussions of touching the earth will be the reversal of history. During the time period in the story, time travel has become a common thing, but is risky, because the government does not approve of it, in fear of ruining the future. The hunters are also not allowed to shoot any animal that has not been preapproved because by doing so, another chain reaction of consequences could unravel. Travis went back in time to pick out the animal for the hunt, and when Eckels hears this, he continually asks questions about the future. He is so careless that he does not realize that by knowing the answers to his questions, the future will be ruined. Travis tells him that knowing the future is paradox. They felt the time machine jump just before stopping, which was them passing themselves on the way back to the Future. They could not see anything, so there is no way of determining the success of the hunt, nor the outcome of the

Enman, Charles. "Books, Movies and TV are Veteran Time Travelers." The Ottawa Citizen, Jan 17, 2000, pp. A6, ProQuest Central, http://libproxy.lib.unc.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/docview/240327266?accountid=14244. Enman, in his article talks about how time travel almost became a reality for most people because of plenty of movies and stories which talk about time travel. In his article, he mentions some of the movies and books which are about time travel including “A Sound of Thunder”. Although he mentioned some of the sources in this article I think he could have added more detail to his summaries. It might be hard for some readers to get the idea of this article for the first time they

Time travel has been debated for years by philosophers and non-philosophers alike. While the possibility of time travel is intriguing and alluring, I do not believe its portrayal in today’s media is plausible. In this paper, I will argue that time travel, particularly back in time, is not possible in our current world and universe.

Besides time travel theories on physic and philosophical, there are also paradox theories about time travel. One paradox theory is the grandfather paradox. The grandfather paradox means that if someone can go back in time and

It moves “backwards” rather than “forward”, and people set their minds on what has taken place, not the future. No time, in turn, is defined as what has not taken place or what has no likelihood of an immediate occurrence.