Paul Nahin TIME MACHINES References Free-Will and Film

Here are some additional chain references I tracked concerning Free-will and Film while reading the book.

Free Will
[I believe that no serious treatment of time travel can avoid the issue of free-will versus predetermination. Nahin too recognizes this fact and consistently deals with the issue throughout his book. (DDE)]

49.3(This particular problem of the unchangeability of past events is of special interest to theologians because it is directly related to free will versus fatalism),
57.-2 (is free will simply an illusion?),
61.2 (fictional way to squirm out of the change the past / free will quandry…an infinity of pasts…may-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics),
62.-1 (fatalistic),
64.-1 (dominance of predestination),
65.4 (versus fatalism),
68.2 (Eternal. Immutable!),
68.3 (cycle of time),
69.2 (as a second order effect of quantum gravity),
77.2 (God powerless),
151.-1 (excluded in a block universe,
154.2, (block universe seems to be a mathematician’s proof of a denial of free will dressed up in geometry)
161 (Subheading),
163.2 (in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine),
164.2 (not compatible with divine foreknowledge),
166.2 (physicists enter the debate of theologians over God’s foreknowledge), 167.-2 (is there no contingency?),
168.3 (is compatible with God’s omniscience),
168.-1 (the theme of science fiction writers),
171.3 (time’s contingent properties),
387.2 (distinction between Determinism and Fatalism),
248.2 (Paradox of Omnipotence),
275.-1 (affecting the past by retroactive petitionary prayer),
285-294, (The Grandfather paradox examined)
288.-1 (grandfather paradox explicit concern over free will),
289.3 (time police; the only way to have both time travel and free will),
292.-2 (the semantics of paradox. What does could mean if you really couldn’t kill your youthful self?),
296.1 (the free will problem in the grandfather paradox),
305.2 (destiny based on knowledge of the future),
308.1 (causal loop do not mean the loss of free will),
328.-2 (block universe, you must),
334.-1 (connection between free will and determinism in Wheeler and Feynman’s backward causality of radiation bilking paradox),
346.-1 (bilking paradox, impossible according to some theories of pyhsics involving tachyons),
348.2 (free will and fatalism, message to the past),
356.2 (grandfather paradox requires one to give up free will),
364.-2 (won’t do to simply declare the grandfather paradox incompatible), 402.-1 (free will and determinism),
501.2 (avoid any metaphysical questions about human free will),
512.1 (it may allow a definition of well-defined in the Cauchy sense and still permit an answer to the question of free will),
517.3 (automatic spaceship plant to be guided to an unknown wormhole eliminates human free will),


FILM
[Even though the appendices for TIME MACHINES are extensive concerning science-fiction stories and novels, they do not include a Motion Picture section.]

2.3 Time Bandits 1981
2.-1 Dr. Who
2.-1 Time Tunnel 1966-1967
3.3 The Twilight Zone 1959-1964
3.2 Star Trek
5.-2 Back to the Future, [16.-2, 49.1] (269.2 charming and fun – indeed clever…not logically possible), 401.1 (Self-encounters)
7.-1 The Time Travelers 1964

Planet of the Apes 1968
The Navigator 1989

8.-2 Terror From the Year 5000 1958 [see Millennium]
11.2 Woody Allen - Sleeper
12.1 Sleeping into the future

Late For Dinner
Encino Man
Forever Young
Demolition Man
Austin Powers

13.-1 Quantum Leap 1989-1993
15.2 In particular, Matheson’s novel was made into the beautiful 1980 film Somewhere in Time. (391.5 watch loop), 315.2 (the watch is given to him bright and shiny, is there no tarnishing for objects caught in causal loops?),

316.1 (photograph and music box are also looping objects, even though we know of their origin.)

16.-2 The Final Countdown 1980, 18.2
20.2 Aldis’s Frankenstein Unbound 1990
22.-2 The first movie time machine: Time Flies 1941 (British)
31.1 Peggy Sue Got Married 1986
33.2 The Time Guardian 1989 (flee into the past)
36.-2 The Spirit of ’76 1991 [patriot historians]
37.-1 Grand Tour 1991 [terribly muddled change the past ending]
40.-2 The Terminator 1984 [48.-1], and Terminator 2 1991 (283.-2, speculation on the basis for Terminator 3 robot getting its arm wrenched off at the end of T2?), 294.2 (No fate but what we make), 402.2 (sexual paradox a central idea)
40.-2 Time After Time 1979 (Jack the Ripper 7 H.G. Wells), (176.-1 in agreement with the block universe he fails)
53.-1 It’s a Wonderful Life 1946
53.-1 Mr. Destiny 1990
78.-2 Time Trackers 1989 (sexual paradox, change the past)
368.2 Groundhog Day 1993 (time loop)
376.2 Star Trek IV (causal loops, transparent aluminum)
101.-2 Spaceballs 1987
102.2 Je t’aime, Je t’aime 1968 (French)
123.1 Event Horizon (perhaps the worst film of 1997)
127.3 The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai 1984
Xtro II 1991
Alien
147.-1 The Philadelphia Experiment 1984 (This film has developed a cult following of people who believe it depicts actual events)
161.1 I’ll Never Forget You (1951), also Berkley Square (1933) [block universe]
176.-2 Television’s “The Twlight Zone,” Ellison’s “The Soldier”
191.1 Timeslip 1956 [living out of sync]
249.1 Timecop 1994 (269.1, so completely mangles logic with its changing and unchanging the past that it seems no subsequent film could do a worse job of treating time travel.)
256.3 The Time Travelers 1964 (one of the more intelligent)
266.3 Time Trackers (1989), Future Zone (1990)
268.-1 Timestalkers (1987)
285.2 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure 1989 (funny conversation the time travelers have with themselves in a time loop is logical!)
289.3 Trancers 1985 (time police)
292.3 Half a century after Weisinger got it right, Hollywood still has a lot to learn about the grandfather paradox. [writing about The Philadelphia Experijment 2, and Timecop.]
293.-2 Twelve Monkeys 1995 (subtle argument against free will) [Nahin fails to point out that Twelve Monkeys is consistent with a block universe and affecting but not changing the past. ]294.3 Back to the Future 3 (the future is yours to make)
303.3 Alternate time tracks: Quest For Love 1971, Julia and Julia 1998, Sliding Down 1998, Time Trax 1993.
401.-1 Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (loop in time, bilking paradox over the placement of keys)
514.2 Contact 1997 (wormholes)