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Subject: Re: A Sane Man Proposes A Time Travel Experiment
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Date: Wed, 20-Aug-86 18:47:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 20 18:47:44 1986
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In article <646@ulowell.UUCP> rickheit@ulowell.UUCP (Erich W Rickheit) writes:

>     I have a (half-wriiten) story along these lines. Some mad professor or

>[Description of plot involving murderer transporting himself back in time
>to place a murder weapon where he can reach it "later" (or is that
>"earlier"?).] 
>...
>     I have plenty of holes to iron out, of course (such as, who loads the
>pistol?) but that, avoid the character development, was the base of the
>plot. The possibilities of a nonexistant item appearing within a time loop
>though, are staggering. What else could you  do with this? Am I the only one
>to have ever thought of such a thing?
>
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But isn't the murderer himself stuck in the same time loop as the gun? 


				      --calvin richter--