Most science fiction that we read/ watch always explains how the science fiction actually works. In Paycheck, the SF by Philip K. Dick explains time travel by Einsteins theory. Much like the film directed by Robert Zemeckis, the time machine in Back to the Future also does not have further explanation of how the machine actually works. This attribute is interesting in that the direction the story can explore is literally endless. We do not know how the machine works, and it is unpredictable to us of what it's capabilities are just as much as it is to the characters in the novel. Many SF also decimate information by having one character not understanding the mechanisms of a system. In Primer, Abe explained to Aaron the concepts of what is happening. He brought Aaron to each one of the professors so that we as watchers understand how the time travel mechanism works.
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