If time travel to our location is possible, we do not live in a branching universe.
This paper argues for the following disjunction: either we do not live in a world with a branching temporal structure, or backwards time travel is nomologically impossible, given the initial state of the universe, or backwards time travel to our space-time location is impossible given large-scale fa...
| Publicado en: | Analysis Vol. 78; no. 2; pp. 260 - 267 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2018
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