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- From: mfterman@dae.Princeton.EDU (Mutant for Hire)
- Subject: Re: Hidden variable theories, was: Uncertainty Princi
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:31:19 GMT
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- In article <BuDu1G.4JB@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, foxd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (daniel fox) writes:
- >What has bothered me about the "killing your grandfather time travel paradox"
- >is that it seems to assume a Newtonian view of the universe. I would think
- >that if such an experiment were attempted (by using massive rotating cylinders
- >or whatever) one would find that quantum mechanics would have to be used to
- >figure out what happened.
-
- In a lecture on closed timelike loops, someone pointed out that if you
- had some wormholes that allowed one to go backwards in time, one could
- have a ball fly between two wormholes, or fly up, get knocked into a
- wormhole by its future self, fly out and knock its past self into a
- wormhole, then fly on, and all sorts of higher order possibilities. Of
- course, you could try to treat these as difference possibilities in QM
- and let interference sort out what is actually going on. Granted a
- more general case like going back in time to kill your grandfather
- isn't so simple. Since closed timelike loops are neither [un]provable
- or seen anywhere, I'm not going to sweat the issue.
-
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