The influence of science on the short story «The Garden of Forking Paths» by Jorge Luis Borges
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Borges' work has been studied and analyzed by critics and scientists as well. His ideas about the nature of reality, time and space exposed in his work have anticipated many modern scientific concepts, such as the perception of time as something nonlinear and the theory of the Multiverse or parallel universes of quantum physics. In this study, through an interdisciplinary perspective that encompasses physics and philosophy of science, all the elements of the fiction of the story «The Garden of Forking Paths» that are associated with science are analyzed. The objective is to demonstrate how Borges' thought is associated with science and more specifically with physics, prefiguring the emergence of new scientific theories, such as that of quantum physics.References
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