From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!G:wing
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: On the genesis of the time concept
Article-I.D.: populi.284
Posted: Tue Aug 10 09:14:40 1982
Received: Thu Aug 12 06:43:36 1982

One other thought on time (This might also be a response to Paradox, but I
haven't read that article yet).  Our past could already be formed by the
future.  Case in point:  The Star Trek episode with Gary Seven shows the
Enterprise traveling back in time to Earth.  Because of what Gary Seven and
the Enterprise do, the American nuclear warhead satillite blows up a bit over
a hundred miles above Earth.  Although Gary Seven at first thinks that they
have changed history, William Shatner remarks that they have records of the
specific event they caused to occur in their history database (no flames,
please!) of that satillite blowing up just as they saw it.  Paradoxes cannot
occur.

					The One And Only,

					Philip L. Wing
					U.C. at Berkeley
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