The Real Reason Time Travel Is Impossible

Forget paradoxes, it’s actually much simpler than that

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Like many children of the Eighties, I consumed plenty of pop culture takes on time travel. But one thing that always frustrated me was the storytellers’ apparent indifference to the question how time travel was possible at all. Examples ranged from Terminator’s complete silence to Back to the Future’s…