Time Travel and the Reality of Spontaneity

Foundations of Physics 36 (7):1099-1113 (2005)
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Contrary to the informed consensus, time travel implies spontaneity (as distinct from chance) so that time travel can only be of the second kind

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10.1007/s10701-006-9056-x

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Recent work on time travel.John Earman - 1977 - In Jeremy Butterfield & John Earman (eds.).

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