From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: time travel
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:50:31 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	Both Heinlein stories have been cited in serious physics books to
illustrate the apparent problems with time travel, including a wonderful
chart of the protagonist's worldline.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:35 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: time travel

>Ted White wrote:
>> "By His Bootstraps" may have been longer, but I thought it was also =
more
>fun.
>> But I do consider the pair of them to be pretty much The Last Word on =
time
>> travel paradoxes.
>
>Does that mean you haven't taken the time to read anything else since?
>

Let's just say that both Heinlein stories referenced above are close to =
the last word on the subject.

Also, they're not novels that wander on and on and on and on . . .

& I have certainly read far too much since then - Ted can declare his own =
reading habits - and yes, the RAH I think had the last word on the subject =
with those two stories.

mjw

>Kit
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>
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