Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!steve From: steve@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Steve Holtsberg) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Back to the Future paradoxes Message-ID: <2243@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 15:19:59 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.2243 Posted: Sun Aug 11 15:19:59 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 06:03:13 EDT References: <9793@ucbvax.ARPA> Reply-To: steve@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Steve Holtsberg) Distribution: net.movies Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 20 In article <9793@ucbvax.ARPA> upstill@ucbvax.UUCP (Steve Upstill) writes: > > I don't know why all you people are spending so much effort trying to >iron out time-travel paradoxes, when it is such a ludicrous idea in the >first place. Why do I say this? Consider the fact that whenever anyone >jumps through time in any time-travel scenario I've ever heard of, they >wind up in the exact same location as they left, IN RELATIVE SPACE. >That is, Marty winds up in the same earthly location he left, when every >nurd worth his keyboard knows that the Earth is spinning at 25000 miles >an hour, flying around the sun, which is spinning around the galaxy, etc. >Marty should be out in space somewhere! > (sorry, I'm excluding The Time Tunnel, where the heroes always landed >in exactly the spot appropriate for the time they were landing in, i.e. >Philadelphia in 1776) > >Steve Upstill 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.