Theorists
He developed the theories of special relativity (1905) and general relativity (1915).
Who is Albert Einstein?
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
The first story to feature interchronic travel.
What is A Christmas Carol?
A plot device whose exact nature is irrelevant but which is crucial to the plot.
What is a Macguffin?
A feeling of longing for the past that, theoretically, transcends time.
What is Nostalgia?
He pioneered the study of black holes; the radiation emitted by them is also named after him.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
An object (usually a collapsed star) that creates a strong enough gravitational field that not even light can escape.
What is a Black Hole?
The first narrative to feature an alternate reality.
What is Bring the Jubilee?
The occurrences and interactions between the characters in a specific dramatic work.
What is a plot?
His theories on serialism help explain precognition as well as how love is timeless.
Who is J.W. Dunne?
Their experiments showed that the speed of light does not depend on the measurement direction.
Who are Michelson and Morely?
Microwave radiation, believed to be a remnant of the Big Bang, that is uniform in every direction we look.
What is Cosmic Background Radiation?
The first narrative to feature a talisman AND travel to the past.
What is The Galoshes of Fortune?
A television series where each new episode starts over, with new characters and plot
What is an anthology?
The use of historical or quasi-historical evidence to provide a sense of realism or truth to events.
What is a Gothic Counterfeit?
His mathematical models show that the universe started with a singularity.
Who is Alexander Friedmann?
A branch of physics that seeks to describe the very fast and very small, such as string theory.
What is Quantum Field Theory?
The first narrative to feature time travel in attempt to change the past.
What is "Hands Off!"
The principle that no characters or objects should be introduced to a dramatic work unless they are necessary to the plot.
What is Chekhov's Gun?
Hegel's theories that state any change is a gradual process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
What is Dialectics?
He used the double-slit experiment to show that light behaves like a wave, but observation “collapses” the light/particle into a particular state.
Who is Thomas Young?
Explains that the laws of physics prevent us from traveling back in time (most likely due to quantum mechanics).
What is the Chronology Projection Conjecture?
The first opera to feature time travel.
What is The Excursions of Mr. Broucek to the Moon and the 15th Century.
The placement of actors, costumes, sets, music, and effects in a scene to give a sense of time and place
What is mise-en-scene?
Marxian term that refers to the owners, aristocracy, or simply the "Haves."
What is the Bourgeoisie?