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Article #352Time Journey
From: Gunther Wenz
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:39
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:39
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If we could travel to the future, this would result in the following problem: 1. We do the journey twice: would we find the same future in the first and in the second journey? If this would be true, this would result in the statement, that we have not really a free will. If we traveled back into the past, then the return journey is a journey into the future and we would have the same problem of the possibility of free will. So, if timetravel is possible, we would not find the same future again, ie the present has changed, or we don't have a free will. In the first case, there must be an infinite number of 'presents', or in the second case we would have no free will. I would like to choose the solution, that there is no possibility for a time travel machine. Gunther
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!unipalm!uknet!qmw-dcs!usenet From: gunther@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Gunther Wenz) Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Time Journey Keywords: free will, time journey Message-ID: <1992Aug20.203923.27958@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: 20 Aug 92 20:39:23 GMT Sender: usenet@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Usenet News System) Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK. Lines: 23 Originator: gunther@whistler Nntp-Posting-Host: whistler.dcs.qmw.ac.uk