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From: tim@sunybcs.UUCP (Timothy Thomas)
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Subject: Re: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
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Date: Fri, 1-Aug-86 13:24:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  1 13:24:39 1986
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>It seems that in performing the experiment, we're relying on someone in the
>future not merely to be able to help us, but also to want to help us.  Is
>this a reasonable assumption?  

Think about the logic in that.  If we have to rely on somebody in the
future to help us, then we will wait forever.  If some technology
is 'invented' or 'found' because of somebody in the future sending
it to us, that would be a contradiction. 
Ok, fine, we now have some new tecnology.   So in the future (since it
has already happened), we send it back to ourselves again.  Where did
it originate???  There is no way any new knowledge from the future
can enter into the present or past because of this knowledge must
originate someplace, or be found (found meaning discovered on its
own or invented, not handed to by some future scientist).

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