Showing posts with label matter transfer. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Time travel and matter transfer

C.S. Lewis

Apart from the Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis wrote a science fiction trilogy and left an unfinished fourth novel, The Dark Tower, which was published as-is after his death. In this novel, Lewis offers an argument against the possibility of time travel, not commonly advanced in this context. Usual arguments are a version of the Fermi paradox, or the enumeration of the paradoxes that could occur if it were possible to travel to the past, and in some cases also to the future.

The argument offered by C.S. Lewis consists of two parts: