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From: tonyf@mmintl.UUCP (Tony Faulise)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Time Travel
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 19:35:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 19:35:52 1985
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In article <95@decwrl.UUCP> metz@troll.DEC writes:
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>In order to make any sense of time travel, as in "back to the Future" or
>H. G. Wells' "The Time Machine", it must be realized  that each event which 
>creates a change in the time line itself will cause anoth time line to be
>created and a new series of events to transpire. This could lead to an 
>infinite number of time lines for a series of acts caused by a time
>traveler. If it is assumed that time is a positive flowing river, a move

well, hey now, that's an idea!  (not original i'm sure, but the first
time i've thought about it this way.)  if you let time-space be a
four dimensional flow, non-turbulent (maybe not a good assumption),
non-viscous (why should it be?), and irrotational (??? what does 
this mean?) then my calculus tells me no two paths of three-space
through time can intersect, right?

maybe we can do something with conformal mapping here?  i have to
read up on this.

by the way, i broke one of the electrodes off my flux-capacitor,
anyone have a spare?						:-)




tony 'the meek and jumbled' faulise
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