20th July 2008, 11:14 AM
Oh? And why's that? What keeps it there? Your mistake is thinking of time as "set" once something already happens, but the very fact that time travel exists in these universes shows that premise to be pretty much flawed.
Here's the deal. The intervening time period is kinda irrelevent in a sense. That is to say, the paradox is that the past moment is CONNECTED to the future. In the future, the past is THERE, right through their portal or whatever. The past depends on events in the future, and the future depends on the past.
Here's the deal. The intervening time period is kinda irrelevent in a sense. That is to say, the paradox is that the past moment is CONNECTED to the future. In the future, the past is THERE, right through their portal or whatever. The past depends on events in the future, and the future depends on the past.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)