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Author Kailene Bradley poses next to the cover of her recent book, The Ministry of Time

Understanding the refugee experience, through a time-traveling British colonizer

This week Code Switch digs into The Ministry of Time, a new book that author Kailene Bradley describes as a "romance about imperialism." It focuses on real-life Victorian explorer Graham Gore, who died on a doomed Arctic expedition in 1847. But in this novel, time travel is possible and Gore is brought to the 21st century where he's confronted with the fact that everyone he's ever known is dead, that the British Empire has collapsed, and that perhaps he was a colonizer.
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Modest temperature reversals have not taken us back in time at all, says guest commentator Jimena Canales.

Time Travel With Your Fridge?

by Jimena Canales

If the history of thermodynamics can teach us anything, it is that modest entropy reversals have not taken us back in time at all. But it is more fun to think otherwise, says guest Jimena Canales.
At the level of quantum particles, there is evidence that actions in the present can influence the past, says Marcelo Gleiser.

Can We Change The Past?

by Marcelo Gleiser

Putting humans and consciousness aside, at the level of quantum particles, Wheeler's delayed-choice experiments show that actions in the present can influence the past, says physicist Marcelo Gleiser.