# Time Travel in fiction

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**Created:** [June 5, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-in-fiction/1019240 "2025-06-05T18:00:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-in-fiction/1019240/28 "2025-06-05T17:07:23Z")

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> [@Everyone gets this wrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-gets-this-wrong/1019166/107):
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> Jaws.
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> (What, everyone doesn’t immediately know who Hooper and Ben Gardner are?)

Never saw it. Never felt a desire to see it.

> [@Chronos](#):
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> If they send it back an infinite number of times, then an infinite number of widgets arrive. But why would they do that? That sounds like an awful lot of work, and I don’t think my grant has funding for an infinite number of time-travels. What if they only send it back once?

In the scenario as presented, they do only send it back once. But they do so an Infinite number of times. And only have to pay for it the once.

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