time travel
Americannoun
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“I think a bunch of adults got into a time machine. I think it was an experiment, one of the first attempts at time travel. They didn’t understand all the effects. So they didn’t realize what would happen when they arrived in our time.”
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And there was some paradox he remembered hearing about, something about a grandmother—oh, yeah, time travel had to be impossible because, otherwise, you could go back in time and kill your own grandmother.
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In so many of the time- travel books and movies he’d seen, people came back from the future to warn about global warming or stuff like that.
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Maybe time travel wasn’t so easy.
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Maybe, if time travel even existed, there were limits to it.
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