Science fiction; Short stories; Time travel -- Fiction
_The names of those congenital skeptics who insist that time-travel
is impossible, even in theory, are Legion. Nor is their stand
difficult to comprehend. They say that no man or woman has yet
traveled backward to meet a younger him or herself face to face.
They say this is immutable paradox. And by way of clincher they
add a query as to why, if time-travel is to come, has it never
happened? Why haven't we recorded instances of visitations from the
future?_
_However, those in favor of time-travel have answers ready and
waiting. These optimists (?) use the parallel universe theory to
meet the first question. Such return, they claim, would immediately
cause a forking of the Earthways, leaving our version of the
world untrodden by time-traveling feet. As to the clincher,
they counter-question with a How do we know we haven't had such
visitors? Time-travel, when it comes, will come in a far-distant
future. At such a distance the mere six thousand years of recorded
human history is a mere fly-speck on the annals of Earth. So why
should this tiny dot in the continuum have been favored?_
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