[ExI] far future
BillK
pharos at gmail.com
Wed Jan 8 20:12:08 UTC 2014
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Stephen Van Sickle wrote:
> The Pangloss Theory of Time Travel: Time travelers iteratively intervene in
> the past, until they reach some sort of maximum or equilibrium where no
> further improvements are possible. Therefore, the world we experience now
> is literally the best of all possible worlds.
>
> Isn't that a depressing thought?
>
No, because it is a work in progress. It is not the best possible
world during all the intermediate stages.
Our staff in the Time Travel Department continue to intervene for
about another fifty of your years.
Then we become unnecessary.
BillK
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