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From: m128abo@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Michael Ellis)
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Subject: Re: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
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Date: Thu, 31-Jul-86 11:22:24 EDT
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> Scott Peterson >> Douglas Miller

>>Time travel violates the conservation of mass and energy laws.

>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.  

    Information suddenly appearing out of elsewhen would be equivalent
    to an increase in negentropy, or a decrease in entropy. Wouldn't
    that violate the 2nd law of TD?

-m128abo