Science & Technology
Rules for time travelers
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T.K. RandallMay 17, 2009 ·
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With the number of bizarre and often conflicting time travel plots that crop up in science fiction, Discover Magazine is taking a look at the premise of time travel and establishes a few ground rules - just how do you travel through time anyway ?
With the new Star Trek out, it’s long past time (as it were) that we laid out the rules for would-be fictional time-travelers. Not that we expect these rules to be obeyed; the dramatic demands of a work of fiction will always trump the desire to get things scientifically accurate, and Star Trek all by itself has foisted half a dozen mutually-inconsistent theories of time travel on us. "
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