published in 2009
by Jack McDevitt
This book describe one major problem with time travel, you can not create paradoxes in the timestream. That is to say you can not make something that happen in history inexistant. In the book, Michael and a collegue wanted to test what would happen if they had a book in a briefcase and went back five minutes in time to take the book out. His collegue was the one to take the tripped and died because of a heart attack because of their attempt to change reality. However, in future attempts to remove items from the past, this cardiac arrest principle does not occur because the main characters decide that they will return the objects back to their time after they have served their purpose. How this makes sense, I have no idea.
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Very, very short, but 4/4 for 3/31 and 4/28/10
ReplyDeleteYou choose great reading material--happy reading!