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From: ray@rochester.ARPA (Ray Frank)
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Subject: Re: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
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Date: Tue, 12-Aug-86 14:49:30 EDT
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This has probably been discussed before so forgive me if it is a rehash of
an old paradox:

If a man goes back in time and starts a chain of events that gets him killed
off before the time from which he left, then he would not have been alive at
that future time to go back in time to get himself killed off, thus if he was 
not alive to go back in time, he could not have been back there to get himself 
killed off which means that he would be alive to go back in time......screw it.
Assuming time travel could be possible someday, how do you solve this paradox?
Perhaps it is a question like 'forever' or 'infinity', the question exists, but
the answer doesn't exist in the dimensions we are accustomed to.

ray