Sunday 4 October 2020

Stating The Limitations On Time Travel

 "The Little Monster."

The temporal inertia effect:

prevents visits either to the future or to any date later than about one million BC;

"'...causes great uncertainty about arrival dates...'" (p. 145) so that expeditions arrive millennia apart.

Built-up stresses in the continuum:

cause whatever is sent back to return to a moment after its departure time after spending only thirty hours in the past;

prevent the bringing back of any matter other than what was sent.

That is one big list of limitations, man, but it is just for this one story.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

In a way, tho, those limitations make "The Little Monster" a more plausible time traveling story than the ones in the Time Patrol series.

Ad astra! Sean