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TIME TRAVEL

LITERATURE
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LATE 19TH / TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY

  • Time travel fiction as social commentary
  • Bellamy's Looking Backward
  • Twain's Connecticut Yankee
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BRADBURY

MID-20TH CENTURY SCIENCE FICTION & PHYSICS
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QUANTUM MECHANICS

DISCUSSION LEADER: JOHN HILKER
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QUESTIONS

  • What type of time travel do you think is most likely? Deterministic, or can we change the past?
  • Do you think that the act of going back in time fundamentally changes the past?
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Questions

  • How does the unpredictable nature of quantum mechanics change your view on time travel and the morality of going back in time?
  • How do you think Bradbury would explain the type of time travel used in “A Sound of Thunder”?
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Butterfly effect

chaos theory
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Bradbury raises questions about

the nature of time & direction
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Erosion of order

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"Many Worlds" or Just One Universe, One Reality?

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What About Free will?

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Bradbury’s significance:
provocative & influential

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Debbie Lelekis