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	Modelling time travel in fiction

Fast T friend

1-1-2009 8:55 AM

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Fast T friend says:

Quite extensive and cool

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a8c21fbc-f6c1-464c-843b-b9f2062617fd/59AA9D42-34CF-422B-960F-081B14D06230/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://qntm.org/?models" href="http://qntm.org/?models" style="font-size: 11px;">qntm.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://qntm.org/?models"><P>Time travel is a subject of great interest to me - not the actual, you know, nuts and bolts <EM>physics</EM> of it, but the various possible models that can be imagined. I've written a variety of <A href="?fiction">fiction</A> based around these. The most important thing, I find, when coming up with a new theory, is to try to trip it up in every way imaginable and make sure it still works.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://qntm.org/?models"><P>Here I go with every model of time travel I can think of.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://qntm.org/?models"><UL>
					<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#sec0">Time travel is impossible</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#sec1">Fixed History model</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#sec2">Malleable History model</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#sec3">Sensitive History model</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#sec4">Pause for thought: Why single-modifiable-history models don't work</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#sec5">Multiple History model</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#sec6">Time loops</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#sec7">Two histories create each other</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#sec8">More imaginative structures</A></LI>
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