Saturday, 13 February 2021

An Exploratory Mission II

See An Exploratory Mission.

No. It would not work. On my favored theory that timelines succeed each other along a second temporal dimension, the time ship entered a future in which Carthage had won the Second Punic War in a past/deleted timeline whereas, in the restored Danellian timeline, the time ship simply disappears, goes nowhen, and Everard, entering the time ship, would disappear with it.

However, my favored theory does not entirely fit the phenomena described in the Time Patrol series, particularly not in "Star of the Sea," where a Patrol agent has acquired a text from a merely potential timeline, thus enabling the Patrol to prevent that timeline.

Sometimes we just have to say, "The quantum nature of the universe..."

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I do recall you commenting on how Anderson himself came to basically agree with your argument that "deleted" time lines simply became inaccessible to travelers from the Danellian line.

Ad astra! Sean