Re: Time travel nonsense 4/24

On Apr 28, 2:33=A0pm, "Bradster" <bdhayREMOV...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Ken Arromdee" <arrom...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> news:futqnr$irt$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > If Kara was in the past and had sent a message to Swann, Clark
wouldn't
> > have
> > noticed it suddenly appearing in the journal, he would have remembered
> > that
> > the message had been there all along.
>
> =A0Not necessarily. =A0Time travel presents many paradoxes and
incongruiti=
es
> that are hard to reconcile in our finite minds. =A0One rational
explanatio=
n is
> that time travel results in the timeline branching which means that the
> Clark from one timeline would be a different Clark than the Kal-El born
on=

> Krypton that Kara was trying to save. =A0The time travel paradox with
the
> potential for multiple universes could provide the writers a way for
tying=

> together multiple universe storylines.

Technically, it's not a rational explanation, just one that is used a
lot in comic books and pulp science fiction.  Given that Smallville is
a comics based TV show, we can allow it to use alternative time
lines.  But then you'd also expect the main protagonist to wear a
costume and fly. :)

Martin