In Kindred, time travel hasn’t been explained yet. There is no theory or scientific reason why Dana is able to travel back in time. In the article “Professor Predicts Human Time Travel this Century”, time manipulation is natural and is explained by time being controlled by motion which can partly explain how Dana is time traveling in the novel. If time travel is physically possible and could be achieved in reality, it will question the genre of the book. Instead of being a sci-fi novel, it could be non-fiction. This also leads to the question of what humans can do with time travel. The political, scientific problems that could be solved as humans can learn more about a behavior or have a more accurate prediction of the future. In the article, “the grandfather paradox” that is seen in a lot of movies and a common misconception people have of time travel is not possible. This is a connection to Kindred because as Dana is questioning her purpose of time travel, she considers the possibility of the grandfather paradox.