First appearance of going to past (time-travel) to change the present

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There have been quite a few movies where people go back in time to change the past so that the present is altered. On top of my head are Back to the future (2), Men in Black (2), one of the recent X-Men movies where Logan goes back, one netflix movie I'm unable to get the name of and if I think hard, I'm sure to come up with at least half a dozen movies or more which showed that to great effect.

While Stephen Hawking has dissed the idea of making a time-machine which can go to the past from the time a time-machine is invented (pity) does anybody know the first movie which used the trope.



Best Answer

The 1933 film Berkeley Square has the protagonist wanting to go back to experience sea faring England, and not change it, but he does.

The 1947 film Repeat Performance has a woman wish she could go back in time and not repeat the mistakes that lead her to kill her husband. This uses magic instead of technology, but the effect is still the same. Time travel to change the past.




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What was the first instance of time travel?

Early time machines One of the first stories to feature time travel by means of a machine is "The Clock that Went Backward" by Edward Page Mitchell, which appeared in the New York Sun in 1881. However, the mechanism borders on fantasy.

Can you change the present by changing the past?

Most physicists agree that you cannot change the present by going back to the past. The Novikov self-consistency principle is a formal statement of this assertion. If we are able to go back to the past, and make changes, the universe will simply rearrange events so that the present stays the same.

Is it possible to go back in time to the past?

While the idea makes for great fiction, some scientists now say traveling to the past is impossible. There are a handful of scenarios that theorists have suggested for how one might travel to the past, said Brian Greene, author of the bestseller, \u201cThe Elegant Universe\u201d and a physicist at Columbia University.

What happens to the future if you change the past?

The paper states that no matter what attempts are made by the time-traveller to alter the past, it will bear no effect on the future and events will take place as they always have.






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