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Letter: Confine all talk of time travel to fiction

Published 22 January 2025

From Ann Giscomb, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, UK

Why even discuss “time” travel outside fiction? We have no concept of what “time” is or if it even exists, just measurements of events compared with each other, the decay of atoms, the movement of the stars, etc (14/21 December 2024, p 54).

Issue no. 3527 published 25 January 2025

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