Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!quint@RU-BLUE.ARPA From: quint@RU-BLUE.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: FTL and time travel Message-ID: <16357@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 18:13:41 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16357 Posted: Thu Feb 2 18:13:41 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 08:44:42 EST Lines: 23 From: Anne Marie Quint [/amqueue]A few digests back, someone made the comment that no science fiction authors had ever made use of the fact that according to quantum physics, faster-than-light travel automatically implied time travel. One science fiction author HAS made use of the fact: Robert Heinlein in Time Enough For Love. I can't find my copy, so I can't give a direct quote, but I believe the concept is first put to Lazarus when he is still on Secundus. He is looking for something new to do because after 3000 or 4000 years he is finally bored. Someone suggests he go back in time. He says How? Apparently, when one makes a decision of where to come out into the regular universe, one also makes a decision as to WHEN to come out. Lazarus says:"I'll have to think about it; it sounds like making an intentional bad landing." He does use this means to travel back in time, where he has many adventures of an unusual nature which I don't think I can mention on the net. RAH! RAH! RAH! have fun /amqueue -------