TIME TRAVEL QUOTES IV
quotations about time travel
People think of time travel as fiction ... And we tend to think it's not possible because we don't actually do it. But, mathematically, it is possible.
BEN TIPPETT
"Time Travel Is Mathematically Possible, Say Researchers", TechWorm, May 9, 2017
The grandfather paradox goes back to the '20s and '30s, and I think it was some kid writing a fan letter to one of the early pulp fiction science magazines who said, "Look, how do you solve this problem?" And now we have a million variations of the same paradox. You know, every time travel story -- at least time travel to the past, if you can change the past -- causes some paradox like it. You have to deal with it in some way. And so if you're a physicist or a logician, more to the point, you might say, "Well, that proves that time travel's impossible." But that hasn't stopped generations of filmmakers and fiction writers from creating stories where one way or another they get around the paradox.
JAMES GLEICK
"The Nation: Patrick Gower interviews James Gleick", Scoop, May 6, 2017
I traveled to the future via a time machine/giraffe named Stanley. He chewed me into bits as my chum watched in horror. That's just how time travel looks to the untrained eye. The reason why there aren't more travelers is that your average physicist refuses to be eaten by a giraffe in the name of science.
BRADLEY SANDS
It Came from Below the Belt