sampsonr.henr@Xerox.ARPA (08/07/85)
From: sampsonr.henr@Xerox.ARPA The lastest conversations on time travel and a report about eye witness reliability given about a year ago struck a nerve. The gist of the report is that people's memories are subjective and that two people involved in an event will recall it slightly different. Now if we assume that everyone remembers things as they happened, AND we assume that the effects of a third party's time travel is small and quite subtle then the diveregence in the the recall of the events is plausible. Finally it would also explain the disappearence of individuals who seem to drop off the face of the earth. The ripple in time finally caught up with them and they ceased to exist. The question is who will be next? How many of these disappearees had children and what effect does the time ripple have on them. T'is food for thought by better SF writers than I. (No I'm not a writer...YET!!) Ronald Sampson(nee Reader of Human Souls)
ayers@convexs.UUCP (08/09/85)
/* ---------- "Time Travel and Memory" ---------- */ From: sampsonr.henr@Xerox.ARPA ...Finally it would also explain the disappearence of individuals who seem to drop off the face of the earth. The ripple in time finally caught up with them and they ceased to exist. The question is who will be next? How many of these disappearees had children and what effect does the time ripple have on them. /* End of text from convexs:net.sf-lovers */ Well, this is so interesting I decided to write a program to figure it all out, just a moment the answer's coming out -- the next person to disappear will be