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The Fourth Kind of Impossibility Is Narrative Imposition
There may be a lot of controversy over what kinds of time travel are actually logically or physically possible, but some of my favorite examples from movies are clearly not how any version of time travel could possibly work. One example probably many people are familiar with is from Back to the Future where Marty McFly goes back in time and accidentally disrupts the chain of events that had caused his father and mother to meet and then give birth to him. That's a version of the grandfather paradox. And then my other favorite example comes from this, I don't even remember why I watched this movie. It's called Kate and Leopold with Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman. Well, that was because Hugh