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Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking
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RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking
But if you did prevent the sinking of the Titanic it would have never happened. So you would never have gone back in time to try to prevent it in the first place.

Therefore you could either not travel back in time or, your attempts would be futile as you can't change the past. But, the present is simply the past to someone from the future meaning that everything has already happened and you are simply following the complex interplay of cause and effect and have no real control and of course no free will.

Unless of course it was your free will that caused the events which cannot be changed to be that way in the first place.

From here on it starts to get a bit complicated...
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Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Skeptisma - August 6, 2010 at 4:58 pm
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Darwinian - August 6, 2010 at 7:02 pm
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Skeptisma - August 6, 2010 at 8:00 pm
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Nitsuj - August 6, 2010 at 7:07 pm
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Darwinian - August 6, 2010 at 7:12 pm
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Nitsuj - August 6, 2010 at 7:50 pm
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Darwinian - August 6, 2010 at 9:28 pm
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Paul the Human - August 7, 2010 at 11:01 am
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by AnunZi - August 9, 2010 at 6:55 am
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by Paul the Human - August 9, 2010 at 11:12 am
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by AnunZi - August 9, 2010 at 11:53 am
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by SleepingDemon - August 8, 2010 at 11:12 am
RE: Time Travel a la Stephen Hawking - by ABierman1986 - August 8, 2010 at 3:07 pm

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