Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!ut-sally!bulko From: bulko@ut-sally.UUCP (William C. Bulko) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Somewhere in Time Message-ID: <913@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 12:15:07 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.913 Posted: Fri Feb 8 12:15:07 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 03:54:13 EST References: <335@haddock.UUCP> Reply-To: bulko@ut-sally.UUCP (William C. Bulko) Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 34 Summary: [ oh, here she comes. . .she's a bug-eater ] This discussion about time travel reminds me of something I came up with many years ago, while discussing the subject with some friends; it's a "simple proof" that time travel will not be possible (or at least, not available to me) within my lifetime. I hereby decide that, should time travel ever be possible, that I plan to travel back to this time, date, and place, and appear to my "younger" self. Do I see my older self appearing? No. . . Of course, you could say that, in a few years, I'll have forgotten about this incident, and therefore not remember that I wanted to come back to 1985 to prove the existence of time travel, but if you're REALLY serious about this. . . An interesting related thought would be to make the effort known worldwide, so that the "hysteria" would be recorded in the history books. Then, X number of years from now, when time travel (supposedly) becomes possible, someone would say, "Hey, remember back in 1985, when the world kept inviting someone from the future to visit? Wanna make history?" If this were possible, then the people from the future could theoretically come back here and teach us the technology needed for time travel. This would cause the ability to travel through time to exist much earlier than the the people from the future stated it to be, and. . .oh, never mind. You flame it out yourselves. -- Bill Bulko Department of Computer Sciences The University of Texas {ihnp4,harvard,gatech,ctvax,seismo}!ut-sally!bulko "Trust is a must or your game is a bust." (Can anyone identify the author of that quote?)