Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Back to the Future paradoxes Message-ID: <650@psivax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 10:32:21 EDT Article-I.D.: psivax.650 Posted: Wed Aug 14 10:32:21 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 01:41:46 EDT References: <9793@ucbvax.ARPA> <2243@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Distribution: net.movies Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 17 In article <2243@sdcrdcf.UUCP> steve@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Steve Holtsberg) writes: > >I think you're dead wrong. Time and space are two different dimensions. >If you travel through time, you SHOULD end up in exactly the same spot >you were in "before" you left. Actually, that was *exactly* his point! The problem is that the Earth would still be millions of miles away from that same spot since the Earth *moves*. Thus he would be in the same place floating in empty space, and he would have to wait 30 years for the Earth to get there! -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!friesen