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A Sound of Thunder part 16: unendings

Even a beginning student of temporal theory will recognize that, under replacement theory, the final trip made by Dr. Ryer must cause an infinity...
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A Sound of Thunder part 15: boomerang

The last reported trip in A Sound of Thunder gives us another problem with the nature of the time travel. It suggests that Ryer will make one trip...
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A Sound of Thunder part 14: the mechanism

To put things in sequence, we considered the problem of the scout a few articles back, and its interaction with the first hunting journey; and we...
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A Sound of Thunder part 13: ubiquity

We touched on this problem with waves already: if the wave of change is moving from the past to the future, by the time it reaches the present it...
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A Sound of Thunder part 12: meaningful

Hidden under all this talk about the wave moving through time making changes is a more fundamental problem. As we noted, despite the many...
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A Sound of Thunder part 11: interference waves

Last time we noted that the reason the Zong-Chang party arrived minutes late was the same reason that Ryer's next trip took him to the near...
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A Sound of Thunder part 10: late arrivals

It is of course not possible for there to be a trip after the Middleton-Eckles disaster, because time has been destroyed. However, the filmmakers...
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A Sound of Thunder part 9: scouting

When Dr. Ryer is explaining their precautions to Dr. Rand, he explains that the beast they hunt is about to die anyway, and specifically that it...
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A Sound of Thunder part 8: undone

Last time we noted that because the changes must propagate through history, either humans have been alive during that time to fight against the...
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A Sound of Thunder part 7: missteps

In examining the supposed impact last time the death of the butterfly had on the climate of the world, we noted also the more general incongruity,...
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