Ray Percival
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Dr Ray Scott Percival is a philosopher and the author of the acclaimed The Myth of the Closed Mind, the documentary Liberty Loves Reason, and author of many articles for New Scientist, Nature and the Times Literary Supplement.
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'The Chronology Protection Case'
The Chronology Protection Conjecture (TCPC)—this is the idea that we, as human beings, are intimately entangled with the evolution of the cosmos and that it (the cosmos) simply will not allow us to tamper with certain possible paths into the future—or the past. Traveling back in time and accidentally changing history, killing your grandfather so that you were never born in the first place, or imperceptibly upsetting the course of events in subtle ways that later blossomed into catastrophic changes to the present, is now traditional science fiction. But if it were possible, historians wouldn’t be able to sleep at night, their work constantly upset by time-tourists. Stephen Hawking rescued historians from this fate.
By Ray Percival7 years ago in Futurism
