To: PatrickHenry
Heinlein's (writing under the nom de guerre, Anson MacDonald) short story "By His Bootstraps" (1941) is interesting with respect to time travel.
191 posted on
11/18/2003 12:23:45 PM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Doctor Stochastic
"By His Bootstraps" is inded a classic. And it probably doesn't involve the privileged reference frame problem. You should also read his "All you Zombies." Similar paradoxes.
Generations from now, Heinlein will be regarded as one of the most important writers of the 20th Century (in my always humble opinion).
192 posted on
11/18/2003 12:31:40 PM PST by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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