That article looks interesting, and I'll read it when I get the chance...
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go forward and you're subject to any number of timeline shifts that could occur because of changes in what's happening in your own time. who knows, maybe because you're not in your own time, someone else dies and suddenly the population changes just enough to create a chaotic butterfly effect in the future.
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I don't quite understand the logic of that, if you travel to the future (and since travelling back in time has been discounted you won't return) you will essentially be doing what occurs everyday, just at an accelerated rate, so you will have ALWAYS been absent from your own time after the point where you embark in a timemachine, the future may be different from the future could have possibly been if you hadn't embarked on a timemachine, but the future could be different as a result of any of the infinite number of choices people make, and so the future is inherently unstable since it doesn't actualy exist yet. If you could travel backwards in time admitedly paradoxes creep in, but i don't see how a paradox can creep in from travelling forwards in time?
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I think i'm revealing too much of my sci-fi fascination/geekiness here. time to be quiet.
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