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Letter: Time travel test

Published 1 December 2010

From Andy Biddulph

This letter is a test of quantum time travel (20 November, p 34). I, in your past, am sending you, in my future, a message. When you print this, in my future, you will, by post-selection, be sending me, in your past, a message telling me what to type when I have finished my cup of coffee. PS: It works.

Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, UK

Issue no. 2789 published 4 December 2010

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