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Iranian Scientist Claims to Have Built "Time Machine" (nationalgeographic.com)
10 points by chenster on Jan 5, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This looks like simple probability based predicting. For example, if you're in college you likely have a decent job in the future. In tree form, the next branch would say based on that, you probably have a family and children.

The film the Adjustment Bureau explores this concept on a large scale. If you miss your morning bus, you would never have sat next to your future wife and the tree branches out in a completely different direction. It would take more than a supercomputer to figure out every possible direction your life could take.


Since when Asimov's Foundation was about time travel?




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