Editing Novikov self-consistency principle (section)

== 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.
* ''[[Orthogonal (series)|Orthogonal]]'': A science-fiction novel series by [[Greg Egan]] that applies the principle.
* The Netflix series ''[[Dark (TV series)|Dark]]'' is largely based on the notion that the possibility of time travel tempts the characters to try to change the past, which only leads them to cause the events they were trying to prevent in the first place.
* ''[[Quantum Break]]'' (2016): A video game by [[Remedy Entertainment]], centers heavily on the question whether the past can be changed or not. Some of the characters in the plot are driven to change it, whereas others, who have already tried doing so in vain, have resigned themselves to come to the conclusion that the Novikov self-consistency principle seemingly applies.
* ''[[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 (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. All of their actions become part of history, and they actually end up causing the tragic events they were trying to prevent in the first place.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': a British science fiction television series that sometimes follows the Novikov self-consistency principle.