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The most lucid book on black holes and time warps, published by Professor Kip Thorne in 1994, is titled, unsurprisingly, Black Holes and Time Warps, and remains both enjoyable and authoritative more than 20 years later. Startlingly, perhaps, the final chapter is titled “Wormholes and Time Machines,” and Thorne is careful to provide a footnote taking responsibility for writing the book “solely from my own personal viewpoint” (483). It is a rich resource on the foundations of both topics, and has some detailed and clearly illustrated accounts of possible time machines.
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Well, unless you believe a god or some equivalent supernaturally powerful entity carefully brought about exactly the same happy event, including all those many cases where the resulting baby was born with injuries or deficits that can’t be repaired.
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For a handy summary of the many timelines in Back To The Future, consult https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20004/was-there-really-a-1955-enchantment-under-the-sea-dance-timeline-with-just-one-marty
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John Gribbin, White Holes (1977, 169–70).
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See, for example, https://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw16.html
Another, on “quantum telephones, is https://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw48.html
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John Gribbin: White Holes: Cosmic Gushers in the Universe (Paladin, 1977)
Kip S. Thorne: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy (London: Picador, 1994)
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Broderick, D. (2019). Don’t Change the Past. In: The Time Machine Hypothesis. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16178-1_4
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