Time Travel in Science Fiction

1.) Time travel by moving through higher dimensions 

In "Interstellar," a vessel where time is represented as a dimension of space, called a "tesseract," was created by advanced beings which allows Cooper to move in one direction to see the past and the other direction to see the future. 

2.) Traveling the space-time vortex 

"Doctor Who's" TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) travels through an extra-dimensional vortex to move to different points in space and time. Time passes normally within the TARDIS. 

3.) Instantaneous time jumping 

In "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time," a 2006 anime, Makoto Konno discovers a device that enables her to jump through time. There is no passage of time for the travel unlike in "Dr. Who."  

The DeLorean from "Back to the Future" is also an example of instantaneous time jumping. 

4.) Time traveling while standing still 

In the "Harry Potter" series, Hermione's Time-Turner, as well as H.G. Wells' machine in his novel, "The Time Machine," both work by moving the travelers forward and backward in the time dimension while keeping them in one spot in space. 

5.) Slow Time Travel 

"In the 2004 film 'Primer,' the traveler stays within a box for 1 minute for each minute of time travel. To go back 24 hours, 24 hours must be spent in the box. The traveler can go back no further than when the time machine was switched on. On arrival, two versions of the traveler exist: the one who time-traveled and the one who has not yet done so" 

6.) You can't go home again 

A time-displacement machine projects a traveler to a point in time in the "Terminator" franchise however it does not allow the traveler to return to the origin point. 


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