h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Time Travel - Paradoxes and Possibilities - A6430303
Author: LeRue - U801685

Time Travel, if only it wasn't as confusing as it sounds.

Perhaps you should have an introductory paragraph at the beginning - something to the effect that 'time travel is not only reserved for the likes of Star Trek and Doctor Who; many real-life scientists have contemplated the paradoxes and possibilities associated with the realm of time travel'. But something that sounds cooler, of course.

Okay, I'll try to think one up.

Minkowski suddenly appears but no mention of who he is or why his space is flat ?

and his is space similar to Euclid's ?

Good entry - not too brain-bending , but not talking down to the reader either - thanks.

An excellent science fiction book about getting round the paradoxes of time travel is 'Timemaster' by Robert L. Forward. He manages to bend the rules of current scientific theory (without quite breaking them) quite effectively - using the wormhole principle which is mentioned in this entry.

Yah, I saw that book a while back but never got around to reading it.

*rights it down on his back log of 'Books I MUST read'*

Any about minokowiski. My fault, thought of Minokwoski spacetime as a 'given', will rectify.

*travels back in time to fix it*

"The wall of the bubble must be 10 to the root of minus 32." Why?

*sighs*

I could go into a huge explanation involving negative width bands and say stuff like "one millionth the diameter of a proton" and it would be just more confusing.

Does it really have to be in there at all? Since you don't explain why this gives a certain mass, it's more or less superfluous

Unfortunately, this is a subject that's already covered rather extensively in the Edited Guide.

A581096 Paradox
A541937 Zeno's Paradox
A765029 Olbers' Paradox
A2350216 The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox
A471449 The Liar's Paradox
A398955 Time Travel - the Possibilities and Consequences
A845930 Anachronisms and Time Travel
A1305028 Temporal Mechanics - as Explained by TV and Film
A3577241 The Nature of Time

Which means it's unlikely we'd be able to accept this particular entry for inclusion into the Edited Guide. However, as others have noted, you do have a breezy style and I'd hope this wouldn't discourage you to carry on writing about other subjects.

Regards,

Jimster

Oh well,

Right it's off of PR.

Good luck next time.