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time travel

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noun

  1. hypothetical transport through time into the past or the future.


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They sit at the heart of how we interpret modern physics and quietly shape everything from how we understand general relativity to how we imagine time travel, multiverses and our origins.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

Beginning as a premium cable offering, it is now available on many streaming services, including Starz, allowing viewers to engage in its time travel ethos both literally and narratively.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

OK, but you mentioned time travel and ancient supertech?

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

But time travel is an imperfect science, and the technician overseeing the process is delirious from a virulent new strain of flu, so Kivrin is accidentally dropped into 1348, the year of the Black Death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Thus the radiation by black holes shows that quantum theory allows travel back in time on a microscopic scale and that such time travel can produce observable effects.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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