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Even Sheena Easton Understands That Time Travel Creates Alternate Timelines
I wish Sheena Easton would sit McG down and explain time travel to him. In this terrible Outer Limits episode, she understands perfectly that when someone traveled back and changed her future, it created an alternate universe... of adult-contemporary music. More »Follow Batman's Journey Through Time on Twitter
The Big Time Is a Mystery Morpheus Would Approve Of
All the Change World's a stage, and one man in his part plays many times — though Fritz Leiber's The Big Time is less a time-travel tale and more Agatha Christie-style Matrix, in play form. More »What If the Beatles Never Broke Up?
Christopher Bird imagines an alternate reality where the Beatles stage an impromptu concert on SNL in 1976 and continue to make beautiful music. How might the face of music, television, and politics have changed if the Beatles had stuck around? More »Airship Greets a Time-Traveling Mayflower in New York Harbor
What if the pilgrims arrived in America to discover a more advanced civilization than they ever imagined? This striking image of the Mayflower II, escorted by a Navy airship, suggests an alternate history of the pilgrims' landing. [Thanks, Marilyn!]The BBC's Version Of FlashForward Is Part Cop Drama, Part Temporal Paradox
Once you glimpse the future, can you change it? That's the question asked by the BBC's new miniseries Paradox, about a scientist and a detective who team up to prevent a major catastrophe, using clues sent from the future. More »Is The Large Hadron Collider Being Sabotaged from the Future?
What if all the Large Hadron Collider's recent woes are more than bad luck and technical problems? Two noted physicists speculate that the future may be pushing back on the LHC to avert the disaster of observing the Higgs boson. More »Rewriting History Always Leads To Serial Killer Rampages — It's The Law
Call it the Butterfly Radio: in Frequency, a guy discovers his old ham radio can talk to his dead father, 30 years ago. And this causes endless time-paradoxes, including a serial killer. Good thing the 1960s dad is Dennis Quaid. More »A Twirling Timeline of Fictional Time Travel
If all time travelers existed in the same timeline, it might look something like this infographic, which outlines which time traveler arrived in which year, how they got there, and what time travel paradoxes could arise. More »Only YOU Can Prevent Time Paradoxes!
Are you a responsible time traveler? New posters from 826 Los Angeles provide some hints about avoiding time travel faux pas that could lead to a faux past. More »Time Traveler's Wife Leaps onto Television
On the heels of a successful opening weekend, ABC has announced its plans for television adaptation of The Time Traveler's Wife, with Friends creator Marta Kauffman. The time travel romance may span a lifetime, but can it span multiple seasons? More »Quantum Physicist Approves the Time Traveler's Wife
Tragic love stories may not be your thing, but physicist Dave Goldberg says there's another reason to be excited for the film adaptation of The Time Traveler's Wife: it's the most accurate time travel movie you'll see all year. More »Seven Things Your Future Self Can Teach You
Our First Look At The Time-Crossed Romance Of The Time Traveler's Wife
The trailer for the timeslip romance, The Time Traveler's Wife, is finally online, and it shows the attractiveness, and horribleness, of a lover who can't stay. (Plus a nifty "dematerialization" effect.) And click through to see the poster. More »Most Awesomely Overcomplicated Time Travel Plot Of All Time
Superthief Carmen Sandiego has stolen a time machine, and then nabbed an electromagnet from the year 2101. Now she's impersonating Roman Emperor (and Stoic philosopher) Marcus Aurelius, so she can use Hannibal's elephants and her electromagnet to steal the Colosseum. More »6 Theories Of Time Travel In Star Trek
Are We Getting More Of David Tennant's Doctor Than We Bargained For?
There are only three episodes of Doctor Who featuring David Tennant's version of the time-traveling weirdo yet to appear... but new reports suggest that those won't be the only doses of Tennant's Doctor we'll get. More »A Doctor Who Rumor More Terrifying Than A Million Daleks
Terminator 5 Will Shred All Of The Franchise's Most Sacred Rules, McG Promises
We still don't know what Terminator Salvation's controversial ending will be. But it can't possibly be as controversial as McG's batshit-crazy plans for Terminator 5. Spoilers (sort of) below. Plus a few new pics. More »Time Travel: Six Reasons Not to Meet Your Mother
Now, if I could travel through time, I'd head for the future, but for some reason, people just keep heading for the not-so-distant past where they run into their own mothers.More »
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