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The logical extension of this would be, given how local interactions might affect events across the globe over time, that the entire past becomes immutable. Tha
by tremon 6y ago
The logical extension of this would be, given how local interactions might affect events across the globe over time, that the entire past becomes immutable. That would reduce time travel to a read-only experience, so it wouldn't have any utility beyond time tourism.
- account42 6y agoRead only time travel would still be immensely useful as there are so many situations where having a clear answer to what happened is interesting - history, solving crimes, analyzing accidents (or bugs as we are on HN), re-measuring experiments, ...
- diggernet 6y agoIt would be, but also immensely troubling, as explored in "The Dead Past", by Isaac Asimov.