Time’s Arrow
- Eloi Honorable Mention
- by Arthur C. Clarke
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Time’s Arrow” by Arthur C. Clarke, in Science-Fantasy, Summer 1950.
Barton and Davis, assistants to Professor Fowler, are on an archaeological dig when a physicist sets up camp next door and speculations abound about viewing into the past—or is it only viewing?
—Michael Main
The discovery of negative entropy introduces quite new and revolutionary conceptions into our picture of the physical world.
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- Time Periods
- Age of Reptiles (252 Ma to 66 Ma: Mesozoic/Triassic/Jurassic/Cretaceous): Although the story says 50,000,000, but it was actually earlier in the age of reptiles.
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: presumed start time
- Timeline Models
- Single Consistent Timeline: We concluded that this is a single static timeline because it seemed that Barton uncovered the jeep tracks before the explosion.
- Time Travel Methods
- Unexplained Time Travel Methods: Probably a machine of some sort that sent the jeep back in time and caused an explosion in the present.
- Real-World Tags
- Groupings
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- “Time’s Arrow” by Arthur C. Clarke, in Science-Fantasy, Summer 1950.