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Lecture Notes

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Below are guides for the articles, texts and movies that are part of the required course work for this class.

Click on the links to go to the specific pages.

Week 9: Let's Review

Watch Podcast series: Final Thoughts (parts 1 - 2) available via iTunesU through iTunes. They are listed under Time Travel Narratives, search under Otis College of Art and Design.

Week 8:

Time After Time (Extra Credit)

Michio Kaku's "Physics of the Impossible"

Week 7: Living Backwards

Through the Looking Glass

Bearing an Hourglass

Week 6: Sacrifice

Quantum Leap

Donnie Darko

H.G. Wells's Time Machine

Week 5: Isolation

Man Who Folded Himself

Somewhere In Time

Robert Heinlein "--All You Zombies--"

Week 4: Multiverse

Sliders

Noein

"All the Myriad Ways" by Larry Niven

Week 3: Time Machines!

Watch Powerpoint Lecture: Time Travel Narratives

Powerpoint (if you have powerpoint, click on the underlined link)

If the option above does not work, download as pdf file (need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the file?)

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Doctor Who, "Blink" and "Girl in the Fireplace"

Week 2: What is time travel and is it possible?

Watch Podcast series: Introduction to Time Travel (parts 1 - 3) available via iTunesU through iTunes. They are listed under Time Travel Narratives, search under Otis College of Art and Design. (The first two podcasts are available . . . there was an issue with the third podcast and in the interest of time I have posted below the podcast as a powerpoint)

NOTE: There are images within the podcast so make sure you listen to the podcast with the video viewer active as well.

Watch Powerpoint Lecture: Introduction to Time Travel Part 3

Powerpoint (if you have powerpoint, click on the underlined link) Note: There are links in the presentation (click on the yellow text)

If the option above does not work, download as pdf file (need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the file?)

Resources Utilized for Podcast

(optional reading but just in case your curious, want more information, or are unfamiliar with some of the people mentioned - these sites may also prove helpful as sources for your paper and collaborative project)

1. Hunter, Joel. "Time Travel". The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. University of Kentucky.

2. "Whig Interpretation of History." Age-of-the-saga.org.

3. Cross, Michael. "The Butterfly Effect". 2001.

4. Pickover, Clifford. Time: A Traveler's Guide. Oxford University Press, 1998.

5. Weisstein, Eric. "Isaac Newton". Wolfram Research. 2007.

6. Weisstein, Eric. "Paul Langevin". Wolfram Research. 2007.

7. The Nobel Foundation. "Albert Einstein". Nobelprize.org. 1922.

8. "Star Trek". Wikipedia.

9. "Farscape". WIkipedia.

10. "Wormholes on Life Support". Lundiverse: A Thinkers Resource. (personal website but contains some current information about wormholes as well as links to articles)

11. "Time". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. This is an invaluable resource for you! It contains a collection of articles about Time.

12. Ohtake, Miyoko. "Rocket-Powered Prosthetic Arm Nearly Ready for Liftoff". WIRED. Issue 15.11. October 23, 2007.

Notes on Larry Niven's essay "The Theory and Practice of Time Travel" from All The Myriad Ways, published in 1971.

Clip below from The Learning Channel - Time Travel: Einstein's Big Idea (Theory of Relativity) and Time Dilation