Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!metz@troll.DEC From: metz@troll.DEC Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Time Travel Message-ID: <95@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 18:40:14 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.95 Posted: Thu Aug 22 18:40:14 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 18:18:11 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 21 In order to make any sense of time travel, as in "back to the Future" or H. G. Wells' "The Time Machine", it must be realized that each event which creates a change in the time line itself will cause anoth time line to be created and a new series of events to transpire. This could lead to an infinite number of time lines for a series of acts caused by a time traveler. If it is assumed that time is a positive flowing river, a move back in time would place the traveler in position to retrace a given path. Since the future from the point at which he/she intrudes could not be changed or else the traveler himself would be changed, it must be true and necessary for a new time line to be formed and the travelers path be in a new direction. The original time path must stay intact or the future where the traveler was would not be if he changed it in any way. This will lead to an infinite number of time lines as each event takes place. To discuss the events in a time travel movie as if they should be logical is in itself illogical and only is a manifestation of our human egos. It is not possible for us to perceive what is taking place around us for we do not have the necessary senses to react to stimuli beyond our limited range. So when you go to a movie, enjoy what it is and do not try to rationalize what is basically irrational.