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From: francis@osu-eddie.UUCP (RD Francis)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Re: Back to the future. Solution. Minispoiler.
Message-ID: <515@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 19:39:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 19:39:35 1985
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> In article <136@kitty.UUCP> peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) writes:
> >Postulate a pair of futures... 2 time tracks diverging from the instant
> >Marty arrives in 1955.
> When Marty 2 goes back to 1955, he's going into world 2.  Shouldn't he
> run into Marty 1, since he is going to the same day Marty 1 went to?

Actually, my theory about what happened to the other Marty involves this
very point.  One possibility is that the DeLorean in world 2 is just one
second ( or maybe two ) off in the first test.  This could have Marty 2
showing up in April/May of 1956 -- then he can split of his own alternate
future.  This solution, of course has problems of its own.
     My preferred solution is as follows -- in the test on world 1, Doc
decides to go into the future.  Perhaps, in world 2, he actually set the
time machine for the future before he went over to get the plutonium.
Another possibility is for Marty to to have remembered that he was in a time
machine, and to have reset the dateto some point in the future, or even to
have accidentally reset the year as he's trying to drive.
     A third solution, which has the advantage of simplicity, says that what
created two alternate timestreams was not Marty's rescue of his father, but
rather the arrival of the two Martys at the same instant.

RD "fozz" Francis   ..!cbosgd!osu-eddie!francis
                or    francis@osu-eddie.UUCP