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Time Journey

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From: Gunther Wenz
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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From: gunther@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Gunther Wenz)
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Subject: Time Journey
Keywords: free will, time journey
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