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 decvax!ucbvax!g:wing