Comment on Ars Live: Join us July 9 for a lively discussion on time travel in the movies

Ars Live: Join us July 9 for a lively discussion on time travel in the movies

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson/Getty Images) Since antiquity, humans have envisioned various means of time travel into the future or the past. The concept has since become a staple of modern science fiction. In particular, the number of films that make use of time travel has increased significantly over the decades, while the real-world science has evolved right alongside them, moving from simple Newtonian mechanics and general relativity to quantum mechanics and the notion of a multiverse or more exotic alternatives like string theory. But not all time-travel movies are created equal.

 

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