I am reserving final judgment until I see were SRD is going with this, I expect/hope Linden's actions have a serious consequences is the following books. If it turns out that her day trip to the past was a simple plot device and nothing more I will be disapointed. I'm with you on this one, IVB. I d...

That's what we're here for!!!

That's what I thought too!

However, does that excuse his responsibility to the fans? He created his world after all!

Perhaps SRD never investigated the philosophical implications when time travel becomes involved instead he seems to be taking the Star Trek approach where meddling in the past is OK so long as you don’t get caught. It appears the only way a plot that utilizes a linear time theory (you travel to the...

Just because something has already happened does not make it predestined. However, at the same time the fact that it happened in the past means it has already occured and will not occur for Linden in any other way. Something happened in the past because of what happened in the future (to the time t...

Thanks very much Loremaster. You're quite correct and I should have said "at least ten" dimensions. Aah! You refer to Richard Feynman: his QED theory, of course, was amazing in that it equally applies to both the microscopic and macroscopic levels, is totally experimentally verified and is...

I think you could both be right, guys: it just depends on which school of thought SRD's rules have been drawn up following, i.e. Perspective Number 1. To negate the possibility of paradoxes in time travel, Professor Stephen Hawking (no less) invokes a 'cosmic censor', an omnipotent entity that inter...

By the way, have a look at this, which examines time travel by virtue of a Mobius Time Loop: www.cix.co.uk/~antcom/mtl.html I especially liked the comment (from the website): Perhaps this is one way of showing how Time itself could be “twisted” in a higher dimension when it comes to time travelling ...

Speaking of arches and circles, readers of Larry Niven know that if your world is a ring with you living on the inside surface you see an arch stretching up and over the sky. The arch of time could be a circle, but since people only exist at one point at any time on the “inside” it appears to be an...

This comment caught my attention, because it made me think (whether logically or not) of a Mobius strip, which appears to be the shape in which Jeremiah constructed the car tracks in his room (into an Arch of Time?). . . . Same here: this freaked me out when I was first shown this when I was about ...

Spot on, Jerico; precisely my point in the first place. Those with the power can surely only see possible/probable outcomes, not definitives, else the future is entirely predetermined and free will to influence outcomes does not exist. So we work on the premise that free will does exist (since that ...

Remember folks that SRD is a big DR WHO fan (Colin Baker is one of his best pals): the Caesures are his TARDIS and he uses them in the same way the Doctor was able to move around various times and places, because T ime ( A nd R elative D imensions i n S pace) can, at least in the science of Dr Who, ...

Apologies - I may have got Murrin's and Jerico's posts mixed up, but you get the point.
And anyway - 'What if's are fun! I thought that was one of the points of this forum?

Drew - I agree that there are quite serious domino effects; I think that'll be the whole crux of the story. Jerico - I also agree with what you say: there is perfect logic to what happens but that is my point! In one sense you are contradicting yourself - you said that Linden had free choice but cir...

SRD has introduced a whole new raft of paradoxes with this time travel thing. There have been a number of comments made about free will and so on, and Linden's 'decision' to go back in time. Let me put this to you: If Kevin's Dirt was present because of the absence of the Staff of Law for several th...