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  title info:
    title: Time travel
    sub title: probability and impossibility
  name:
    name part: Effingham, Nikk
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: There are various arguments for the metaphysical impossibility of time travel. Is it impossible because objects could then be in two places at once? Or is it impossible because some objects could bring about their own existence? In this book, Nikk Effingham contends that no such argument is sound and that time travel is metaphysically possible. His main focus is on the Grandfather Paradox: the position that time travel is impossible because someone could not go back in time and kill their own grandfather before he met their grandmother. In such a case, Effingham argues that the time traveller would have the ability to do the impossible (so they could kill their grandfather) even though those impossibilities will never come about (so they won't kill their grandfather). He then explores the ramifications of this view, discussing issues in probability and decision theory. The book ends by laying out the dangers of time travel and why, even though no time machines currently exist, we should pay extra special care ensuring that nothing, no matter how small or microscopic, ever travels in time.
  note: Nikk Effingham.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Space and time
  subject:
    topic: Time travel
  subject:
    topic: Voyages dans le temps
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy & Social Aspects
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Time travel
  subject:
    topic: Space and time
  classification: BD632 .E34 2020
  classification: 115
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Time travel
    name:
      name part: Effingham, Nikk.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1120688973
  identifier: 019258006X
  identifier: 9780192580061
  identifier: 9780192580054
  identifier: 0192580051
  identifier: 0198842503
  identifier: 9780198842507
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 200314
    record change date: 20260319181933.1
    record identifier: in00005718360
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng