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From: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar)
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Subject: Re: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
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Date: Mon, 11-Aug-86 13:31:33 EDT
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In article <1693@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>>From: caip!ihnp4!mmm!cipher (Andre Guirard)
>>It seems like I've heard a theory to the effect that time travel can't
>>exist not because it's theoretically impossible, but because the
>>invention of time travel makes it possible to modify the past, making
>>time travel never to have been discovered.  Knowing how to travel in
>>time is an unstable situation.
>
>I believe this suggestion is due to Larry Niven.
I call this the "Fixed Point" theory of why there are no time travelers.
The universe recurses until it reachs a fixed point (i.e., a universe
where one one gets around to inventing a time machine)

Mark Biggar
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