Regarding travel forwards or backwards in time, outside of normal temporal constraints, and the implications and repercussions thereof.
2
votes
3answers
158 views
How did this [spoiler] interaction occur in Dr Who “Journey to the Centre” episode?
In the episode Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
This character
Goes through the rift to warn
How can this even possible without destroying the fabric of space time? Or creating a paradox, or ...
0
votes
1answer
81 views
Book about a girl who talks to a tree (or boulder) and finds golden door
I'm looking for an old fantasy book. A woman/girl moves into new house and odd things happen that actually the tree or boulder in backyard is responsible for. The girl and the tree form a ...
5
votes
0answers
97 views
Short story about meeting different intelligent species that have all evolved on Earth
Please help find a short story that deals with the following: Human time travellers go back to the time of the dinosaurs. I cannot remember if they encounter intelligent dinosaurs, but they do meet up ...
3
votes
0answers
94 views
Looking for a short story my father read years ago-curved part of space and goes back in time
A lookout ship hits curved space and gets transported back in time. It flies back to Earth and tries to call in but no one answers. He lands out in western USA somewhere and finds work. The guy is ...
9
votes
3answers
408 views
Freezing time = freezing air?
When Hiro or Peter freezes time and everything around them stands still, how are they still able to breathe? Wouldn't all the molecules in the air be frozen in place as well?
5
votes
1answer
89 views
Time travel book for young adults, available in school libraries in 70s, cape-wearing girl meets Greensleeves-whistling boy
Tyring to identify a 70s book about a teenaged girl in England, alone at boarding school over the holidays, who puts on a cape from the school theatre and time travels. She meets a boy in the woods ...
7
votes
0answers
160 views
Time traveling boy takes girl to two-caste future; what book was this?
I hardly remember anything about the series, except that a girl meets a boy from the future, and he takes her back there. The society has become double-tiered, with the rich living on a new surface ...
3
votes
1answer
101 views
Teen sci fi novel about time travel
Searching for a time travel novel I read when I was a teenager in middle school, circa 1995, about a kid or young man who finds some kind of a marble or pebble or pearl or something that gives him the ...
6
votes
4answers
274 views
Is Marty McFly Traveling to Parallel Universes?
Marty has always been inexplicably protected from the changes in the timeline. Thus he operates with a memory of the original timeline in which the "time machine" was never invented (or never used).
...
8
votes
4answers
223 views
How did Clara dedicate Emmette's tombstone in Back to the Future 3?
In Back to the Future 3, Doc Brown is only able to save Clara Clayton because of Marty's presence (as they had to scout that area for the plan).
Though if Marty had not traveled back in time, Doc ...
4
votes
2answers
135 views
book about 2 children who traveled through time using a circle of stones
This book is about 2 children who traveled trough time using a circle of stones similar to Stonehenge. It was read to me in 5th grade... Around 1985... I am having trouble remembering more details. ...
0
votes
0answers
141 views
Early 90's children's book about a girl who travelled back in time
I remember this book I loved in the early-mid 90's about a girl who was able to travel back in time to the 70's and meet her mum (I think). I can't remember the whole story, but I feel like maybe her ...
1
vote
0answers
119 views
Boy from future comes to the past to take very intelligent young people to the future
I'm looking for a novel I read in the 1990's, probably the mid-90s. In it, a boy comes from the future to take intelligent young people who will be beneficial in their time.
Due to misinformation, a ...
2
votes
0answers
102 views
So, why did Ultimecia want to compress time?
On disc three of Final Fantasy VIII, when Dr. Odine finally gets around to explaining what's going on with Ultimecia, he tells us that she's attempting to use Ellone to compress time. But maddeningly, ...
3
votes
4answers
264 views
What would happen if a looper lived the full 30 years until he was sent back?
So we all know that the loopers eventually get sent back 30 years in order to be killed by his younger self. If the looper fails to kill his older self and is not found out (say, by collaborating with ...
9
votes
1answer
179 views
How long were O'Neill and Teal'c stuck in the time loop in Window of Opportunity?
In season 4 episode 6 of Stargate-SG1, "Window of Opportunity", Jack O'Neill and Teal'c get stuck in a time loop, repeatedly living the same ten or so hours after a mission to a planet where they had ...
8
votes
2answers
437 views
The DeLorean in Back To The Future
I have noticed some things that I can't understand in the Back To The Future films about the DeLorean.
In part I, when Einstein is sent 1 minute into the future the DeLorean comes back completely ...
3
votes
2answers
143 views
How fast does the TARDIS accelerate time between itself and Earth?
I recently started watching Doctor Who (onto season 3) and noticed that the first time Rose traveled in the TARDIS and returned to her present timeline it had been about a month since she left. The ...
0
votes
0answers
37 views
In the New 52 when did the planet Krypton explode? [duplicate]
In the New 52 did the planet Krypton explode between 20 to 35 years ago and Superman/Kal-El was transported to Earth very quickly OR did the planet Krypton explode thousands, possibly millions of ...
1
vote
1answer
97 views
Looking for title YA Time travel 1970s England to Victorian
I'm looking for the name of a book that I read when I was a kid.
Teenage girl in moden day England ends up going back to 1880's at Christmas time. The most vivid thing I remember is an all blue ...
4
votes
1answer
184 views
Book about a man on a space station who sees himself
I'm looking for a book about a man on a space station who travels through time and sees himself lurking around, but he doesn't know it and hits the intruder over the head.
He is setting traps for the ...
6
votes
1answer
147 views
Time travel novel search
I've been searching for a novel I read about thirty years ago. The main character can time travel in spurts for as long as his breath lasts. He decides to see the crucifixion but is picked up by a ...
4
votes
0answers
121 views
Please help me find the name of this novel
THis story involves a rainbow and time travel. In this story, there is a man with his daughter(around 5 years old) and a nanny. I think he runs an aircraft business. His daughter always wanted him to ...
2
votes
1answer
268 views
Is Lorna Bucket the Doctor's daughter?
The Doctor's daughter, Jenny, in series 4 episode 6 dies and regenerates right? Well in series 6 episode 7, Lorna Bucket claims she's met the Doctor in the gamma forests where Jenny (the Doctor's ...
4
votes
2answers
179 views
When did the first back in time Time Traveling Robot appear in the real world?
Which work of literature, film, or TV (or radio) program was the first to feature a sentient robot from the future that traveled back in time?
3
votes
2answers
661 views
Why did the Observers invade?
We have learned that the Observers are just highly evolved humans. If that's the case, what's their motive for invading our present (their past)?
The most obvious answer would be to ship some ...
2
votes
1answer
276 views
Looking for YA fantasy about reincarnation
I'm looking for a Young Adult fantasy romance about reincarnation.
A woman travels back in time where there was a forbidden romance between a monk and herself. She is incredibly beautiful. She's ...
2
votes
1answer
110 views
Looking for favorite author of series YA fantasy in 70s
Looking for favorite author from Young Adult section of library, during early 70s. One plot involved a girl who was having trouble with her racial identity (she was half black) and while on a class ...
2
votes
1answer
222 views
Looking for book Young Adult fantasy from 70s
I'm looking for book Young Adult fantasy from 70s.
Girl is transported back in time to England. She can stay there as long as she doesn't fall asleep. She is in a boarding school. She manages to stay ...
4
votes
2answers
480 views
How could Walter send Peter the letter in the last episode?
THIS QUESTION CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT VIEWED THE LAST EPISODE
In the last episode of Fringe, Peter finds a tape addressed to him, which was encased in amber. In this tape Walter ...
7
votes
2answers
332 views
How does Peter stay in the primary universe, even though the Observers cease to exist?
In the Season 5 and series finale:
Earlier on in the series we learn that:
So wouldn't all this not happen when the Observers no longer exist?
This would mean that Olivia and Peter never ...
6
votes
1answer
210 views
Why did time travelers in Timecop turn into gelatinous blobs of goo-energy if they came into contact with their former selves?
We're told throughout the movie that "the same matter cannot occupy the same space".
Yet, even after a few months it's very unlikely that there are many of the same atoms in your body that were there ...
3
votes
1answer
171 views
What was the short TV mini-movie in the 1970s where a college student restores a old car and then goes back in time in it
I have been telling my kids this story for years. It came on TV (most likely ABC, NBC, or CBS) in the 1970s around Halloween time.
The plot line was about a kid who comes back from college and ...
3
votes
1answer
298 views
I'm looking for a teen book trilogy with science fiction
There are 3 books in total in this series.
It features a boy in the present who meets a girl from the future who has come to help him save the coral reefs/rain forests/arctic glaciers because ...
0
votes
0answers
64 views
Why did the doctor leave Amy and Rory Behind? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can’t the Doctor just land the TARDIS outside New York during 1938?
In "The Angels Take Manhattan" after Amy goes back for Rory, why didn't he go get them? I know that ...
19
votes
0answers
462 views
Time Travel story where an imprisoned psychopath kills people from his past?
I read a story some years ago (probably about 35) in an monthly sci-fi anthology...
It's set in a prison. The main character is a psychopath who has sessions with a psychiatrist - in these sessions ...
8
votes
0answers
168 views
what's this novel? a mathematician turned marine is transported to the future
I read this novel some time in the 90s, not sure when it was written.
The time travel had to happen at certain times, the interface of air and water, early morning. I think in the backstory he had ...
10
votes
2answers
379 views
Who or what is the voice Cole hears and calling him as “Bob” in Twelve Monkeys?
In Twelve Monkeys, Cole hears someone who calls him as "Bob"... He hears him in the past and also in the future... Who or what is he?
4
votes
3answers
353 views
How did Chuck Berry come up with Johnny B. Goode in the original timeline?
In Back To The Future II, we learn that traveling forward in time, after having altered the past, lands the traveler into an alternate present or future compared to the one they originally left.
...
11
votes
3answers
799 views
Back To The Future: Time Travel Paradox
In Back to the Future, to get Marty back to 1985, it looks to me like the Doc connects a cable to the pole with the weather vane on top of the clock tower and fastens the other end to a light pole on ...
2
votes
1answer
205 views
Trying to identify an episode of a 1980's Sci-Fi TV Series. Perhaps Amazing Stories, Outer Limits? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Looking for an old SF tv short story about blue men staging the future
The premise is similar to the logic used in The Langoliers, in that time is constructed, & ...
4
votes
2answers
154 views
Purpose of sending Dean into past in Supernaturals S04E03?
In Episode 3 ("The Beginning") of the 4th Season of the Supernatural Series, why does the Angel send Dean back in time?
At the starting of the series, the Angel asks Dean to "Stop It", but at the end ...
15
votes
2answers
640 views
Title of a time travel movie involving a boy in alien armour and a girl?
So years ago I saw this move with time travel but I didn't watch it from the very beginning.
I really would appreciate finding out the title of this movie.
Some random facts from this movie (I'm not ...
8
votes
1answer
449 views
Looking for a fantasy love story with time travel
I read a book in the 90's that was a romantic story.
More than 1 book made up the story- I think possibly 2 parts.
It was about a girl who ended up at an old mansion when on a walk. She went ...
2
votes
2answers
379 views
What is the volition in TimeCrimes?
TimeCrimes (or los Cronocrimenes) is an outstanding Spanish time-travel mystery. Therein,
So where does the volition come into this? It's not enough to say
Where did it come from?
It's an ...
0
votes
1answer
224 views
Are there any SciFi treatments of time travel that avoid the typical paradoxes? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why do time-travel stories often have the characters “returning” to the future?
The possibility of time travel normally creates paradoxes. If you can travel into the ...
6
votes
2answers
278 views
Why was Amy Pond able to speak to a past version of herself?
In Father's Day, it seemed to be established that if a person sees or interacts with a version of themselves from the past/future, reapers appear and devour everything that doesn't belong in the ...
5
votes
1answer
431 views
Help me find a story where your consciousness can travel in time via use of drugs?
I read a novel about 15 years ago, with time-traveling as the main topic. People can send their current consciousness to the past or the future inside them, with 2 kind of drugs respectively. With the ...
3
votes
0answers
29 views
How could Norby transport safely with Marcel?
In "Norby and the Queen's Necklace", Norby and his owner are taken back to the time of the French Revolution and end up escaping the Bastille. They end up meeting Marcel and then violate all sorts of ...
7
votes
2answers
435 views
On the nature of paradoxes in the Whoniverse?
Loosely: How do Paradoxes work in Doctor Who?
We see in previous episodes,
To allow a paradox to occur.
We also have the the weeping angels, that feed off of time loops. They are however ...
