"'Then it'll never have been. You won't exist anymore.'" (see here)
"You won't exist anymore" acknowledges that Novak exists now. "...it'll never have been" means that it is possible that the beta timeline, which they are in, does not exist now. Everard's dialogue oscillates between the mutable timeline model and the discontinuous timeline model.
As with Wells' The Time Machine, we appreciate the discussion of time and time travel and, as part of that appreciation, have to engage in the discussion.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
It would be interesting if a physicist and a linguist like JRR Tolkien tried working out a kind of Temporal, including those tenses and temporal adverbs. Tolkien was famous for his invented languages.
Ad astra! Sean
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