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From: sdp@omssw1.UUCP (Scott Peterson)
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.sci,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
Message-ID: <129@omssw1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 15:46:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 29 15:46:27 1986
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Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
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In article <5723@lanl.ARPA> dxm@lanl.ARPA (Douglas Miller) writes:
>> [...suggests a time travel experiment...]
>> 
>> Comments?
>> 
>> 	>< ...{ decvax!linus | seismo!harvard }!axiom!gts
>  
>Time travel violates the conservation of mass and energy laws.
>
>Doug Miller   
>....ihnp4!lanl!dxm   or  dxm@lanl.arpa

It doesn't violate conservation of mass if all you send is information.
I don't know how to send information without influencing the position of
something at the destination end (something already there) or causing
some kind of radiation, which amounts to sending energy.  

Scott Peterson, Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR, ...!tektronix!ogcvax!omssw1!sdp