Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site Shasta.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!Glacier!Shasta!morris From: morris@Shasta.ARPA Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Back to the future. Solution. Minispoiler. Message-ID: <7132@Shasta.ARPA> Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 14:45:32 EDT Article-I.D.: Shasta.7132 Posted: Mon Jul 29 14:45:32 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Jul-85 04:38:21 EDT References: <136@kitty.UUCP> <2198@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Reply-To: morris@Shasta.UUCP (Kathy Morris) Distribution: net Organization: Stanford University Lines: 18 Summary: In article <2198@sdcrdcf.UUCP> steve@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Steve Holtsberg) writes: >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. In world 1, the original world in the future, >>George McFly is a nerd. In world 2, the world Marty ends up in, he's >>a yuppie. >> >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? No. Why should Marty 2 be going back to the same time Marty 1 went back to? His friend knew about the problems Marty 1 had nearly caused, and surely wouldn't want to risk a repetition (this probably isn't the right word...). Kathy Morris (.. {ucbvax | decvax!decwrl} !Glacier!diablo!morris morris@diablo.ARPA)