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Letter: Time, or no time

Published 12 March 2008

From Peter Fyfe

Those theorising about the possibility of time travel (9 February, p 32) should have a quick chat with those theorising time doesn’t exist (19 January, p 26), who appear to agree with the old mystic philosophers in questioning the ontological status of any time but the present.

After all, spending a lot of effort travelling to a “then” only to discover it’s still “now” would be terribly disappointing.

Newtown, New South Wales, Australia

Issue no. 2647 published 15 March 2008

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