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Letter: No future

Published 18 January 2012

From Sepehr Ehsani

In reviewing Brian Clegg’s book How to Build a Time Machine Manjit Kumar discusses the theoretical limitations of time travel (10 December 2011, p 52). Clegg ponders the absence of time-travelling guests at an event they were invited to in 2005; this may be a harbinger of our own fate.

We have developed unprecedented means of self-destruction, and maybe our species does not survive long enough to develop time travel technology. A sobering thought.

Toronto, Canada

Issue no. 2848 published 21 January 2012

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