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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.UUCP (mcewan )
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Subject: Re: FTL and time travel - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 22:28:16 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 22 22:28:16 1984
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uiucdcs!mcewan    Feb 22 16:16:00 1984

    /***** uiucdcs:net.sf-lovers / ihuxs!okie /  6:22 pm  Feb  6, 1984 */
    Larry Niven has also dealt with this subject.  In *A World Out of Time*,
    a man from the past is awakened from frozen sleep in another body (hmmm --
    time travel of another kind?).  In his future, he finds that he is in the
    body of a criminal that must repay his debt to the State.  They make him
    a starship pilot (rammer) and send him out with a ship on a long mission to
    "seed" worlds for future life.  Well, he ends up stealing the ship and
    heading for the galactic core -- but at one point he has to depend on his
    ship's computer, which is intelligent.  The computer puts him into an FTL
    course around the black hole at the core (you have to understand a bit
    about the cosmology of Niven's galaxy for this) and they wind up back on
    earth a few million years later than when he left.  Also, the computer
    informs the pilot after the fact that they could have arrived home only
    70,000 years later had the orbit around the black hole been changed slightly.
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This story does NOT involve FTL travel. The 3 million year time difference
is caused by slower-than-light time dialation.

					Scott McEwan
					uiucdcs!mcewan