Time Travel in Fiction Rundown
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This video is sponsored by the YouTube Red Sci-Fi Series "Lifeline".For ages I’ve been wanting to make a video analyzing time travel in fiction – not themagical or physical mechanisms by which the time travel is supposedly achieved , but rather,the different ways time travel can influence causality (and thus the plot) within the universeof each story.Needless to say, there are spoilers ahead!Let's start with Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card – time travel in this book is actually100% realistic: the characters experience slower passage of time when they travel closeto light speed, allowing just a few days or months to pass for those traveling while yearspass on earth or other planets.It's traveling forward through time like w...
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This video is sponsored by the YouTube Red Sci-Fi Series "Lifeline".For ages I’ve been wanting to make a video analyzing time travel in fiction – not themagical or physical mechanisms by which the time travel is supposedly achieved , but rather,the different ways time travel can influence causality (and thus the plot) within the universeof each story.Needless to say, there are spoilers ahead!Let's start with Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card – time travel in this book is actually100% realistic: the characters experience slower passage of time when they travel closeto light speed, allowing just a few days or months to pass for those traveling while yearspass on earth or other planets.It's traveling forward through time like w...
