Today we read that the whole purpose of time travel is to change history, either the private history of the character, as in Playing Beatie Bow (1980) by the Australian author Ruth Park, or The Root Cellar (1981) by Canadian Janet Lunn, or the history of the world, like A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978) by Madeleine L’Engle. In this book the character changes the past so that the third world war does not break out in his own time. Time Travelers are no longer passive observers, but must take upon themselves responsibility for their actions in the past.
– Children’s Literature Comes Of Age by Maria Nikolajeva
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VARIOUS LINKS ABOUT TIME TRAVEL
1. Speed of light discovery: would you go back in time? and Time Travel In Fiction, from Guardian Science.
2. What Is Time? from Michio Kaku (a video)
3. Watch design built for ‘predictably late’ Indian time, in acknowledgement of the fact that different cultures have different attitudes towards time-keeping.
4. Why the past is different from the future, from Brain Pickings
5. What Is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate Theory from Wired
6. 10 Myths About Space Travel That Make Science Fiction Better from io9
7. Why Time Travel Stories Are Meant To Be Messy from io9
8. The 10 Least Competent Time Travellers from io9
9. Is Time Travel Possible? (a video from Unplug The TV)
10. The Awful Time Travel Trope That Both Looper and Doctor Who Embraced from io9
11. 12 Greatest Time Travel Effects from Movies and Television from io9
12. Rachel McAdams has been in 3 time-travel films, but never time-traveled from io9
13. Time Travel Via Wormhole Breaks the Rules of Quantum Mechanics from Discover
