Everyone likes to speculate about the possibility of time travel, but no one seems to have enough information to fend off the countless arguments for every single opinion. Every idea about time travel, whether for it or agin’ it, is laden with assumptions about the way things actually are, such as the manner in which time functions in the universe, and indeed that time exists at all.
"Do you believe in fate, Neo?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life."
First of all, a little homework before you continue on--All You Zombies-- by Robert A. Heinlein. It's a fairly short story, so it shouldn't take long.
Read it? Good. Now, I've decided to post an entry about it because of a number of things: 1) someone else brought up time travel in another post and it got me into a rather heated debate with Lancekates about infinite loops; 2) ironically enough, this story and the topic of time travel was part of this week's lecture for my Science Fiction class; 3) doing my homework on it really got my mind going about infinite loops and why I don't think time travel will be possible until the far distant future.
First off let me say that I was inspired to right this blog after reading the blog/comments found here, http://www.progressiveu.org/093535-invalidating-time-travel-into-the-pas....
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