Re: Jim Chapin: Alternate Pasts...

From: Henk Langeveld - Sun Nederland <Henk.Langeveld_at_Holland.Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 10:46:29 --100

> In the February 1995 issue of Analog, Donald Kingsbury has an interesting
> piece called "The Janus-Headed Arrow of Time: Entropy and Time Travel."

> Kingsbury's argument is that, just as there are
> multiple futures possible when we start at this moment, so are there
> multiple pasts! :

Hmmm, why not?

> This may solve all those Heroquest adventures! People are travelling to
> ALTERNATE pasts! Doing so doesn't change the present; it just gives a
> different explanation for what exists in the present! In doing that, it
> may be a good way to change the future! In fact, the best way to change
> the future, but it doesn't change the present! Maybe this is what the
> God-Learners were doing with all their religion shuffling?
> Jim Chapin
>

Scary.

But so they were...

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