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He established Classical Mechanics (3 laws of motion and the universal law of gravity).

Who is Isaac Newton?

200

Theory that suggests all mass and energy started at a single point that “exploded” outward ~13.8 billion years ago.

What is the Big Bang Theory?

200

This text features the first time traveler.

What is the Talmud?

200

Which paradox states that Tim cannot go back in time and be in the same spot as his past self.

What is the Self-Visitation?

200

Television series that features time traveling episodes about errant planes and unalterable pasts.

What is The Twilight Zone?

400

He proposed a model of the universe with the sun, not the Earth, at the center.

Who is Nicolas Copernicus?

400

The branch of physics that studies matter and energy at the atomic and subatomic level.

What is Quantum Mechanics?

400

The first narrative to feature an accidental time traveler due to forces outside of his control.

What is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

400

This paradox is logical if one believes that the present is the only moment that physically exists.

What is the Nowhere Argument?

400

This is the name of the black hole in Interstellar.

What is Gargantua?

600

He observed galaxies outside of ours and that their light is redshifted proportional to their distance away from us

Who is Edwin Hubble?

600

An object in motion remains in motion (and an object at rest remains at rest) unless acted upon by an outside force.

What is Newton's 1st Law of Motion?

600

This is the first narrative to deal with time-travel paradoxes.

What is Tourmalin's Time Cheques?

600

Tim goes back in time and teaches a football team how to win using an intricate passing scheme he learned from his coach in the future.

What is an Information Loop?

600

Doc Brown visualizes this when he fell from his toilet.

What is the Flux Capacitor?

800

He calculated the force between two charged particles.

Who is Charles Coulomb?

800

States that the speed of light is the same for all observers in inertial reference frames which leads time dilation.

What is Special Relativity?

800

The first play (drama) to feature time travel.

What is Anno 7603?

800

Bob3 punches Bob1 into a portal only because Bob1 falls into the portal and makes the round trip.

What is a Causal Loop?

800

Carly Simon song that claims the present is actually the "good old days."

What is "Anticipation?"

1000

He unified electricity and magnetism into a unified theory that predicts light is an electromagnetic wave.

Who is James Clerk Maxwell?

1000

The boundary from which light cannot escape the black hole’s gravitational pull.

What is the Event Horizon?

1000

The first narrative to feature a time loop.

What is Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred?

1000

This paradox creates the Cheshire-Cat Problem solved only by a spatiotemporal continuity.

What is the Double-Occupancy Problem?

1000

Kirk and Spock travel back to this year in "City on the Edge of Forever."

What is 1930?