Re: Lottery drawings and sensitivity to initial conditions

Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Unless the time traveler inserted himself into an earlier time of the
> same universe that he left.  That is, the future that he knew contained
> all the consequences of his visit to the past already.  This assumes
that
> past details that are not in the historical record are in some sense
> undefined.

An excellent point, I hadn't thought of that.

If you've invented time travel but somehow still haven't figured out if 
it's many-worlds or same-timeline time travel, I guess lottery drawings 
could be a quick way to find out. If they match your records, you're not 
going to be able to change anything, so gather what info you want for the 
future and get out.

-- 
Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software