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== In popular culture ==
* ''[[The Final Countdown (film)|The Final Countdown]]'' (1980): A science-fiction time-travel movie in which the aircraft carrier [[USS Nimitz|USS ''Nimitz'']] passes through a wormhole back to the eve of the [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]]. The anomaly returns and sends it back into the present, before it has a chance to affect the outcome.
* The story ''[[The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate]]'' (2007) by [[Ted Chiang]] explores the interplay between free will and self-consistent time-travel.
* ''[[Steins;Gate]]'' (2009): Cited by Makise Kurisu during her presentation on time travel.
* ''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'': In Eliezer Yudkowsky's exposition on rationality, framed as a piece of Harry Potter fanfiction, Harry attempts to use his Time Turner to influence the past and comes to the conclusion that the Novikov self-consistency principle applies.
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* The Netflix series ''[[Dark (TV series)|Dark]]'' is largely based on the notion that the possibility of time travel tempts the characters to try change the past, which only leads them to cause the events they were trying to prevent in the first place.
* ''[[Outer Wilds]]'' (2019): A video game involving time travel which does not follow the principle, causing a game over if the player experiments to test it.
* All time travel in the [[Hallmark Channel]] original series ''[[The Way Home (2023 TV series)|The Way Home]]'' follows the Novikov self-consistency principle. Two of the main characters can travel backwards in time by jumping into a pond, but they are unable to change anything in the past and actually end up causing the tragic events they were trying to prevent in the first place.
 
== See also ==