Re: Transphasic Torpedoes
In Alfred Bester's short story "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", a mad scientist invents a time machine for the sole purpose of eliminating his unfaithful wife, but after killing her grandfather, when he returns to his own time she's still there. He tries a series of larger and larger interventions, to no apparent effect, save that he becomes progressively less able to interact with anyone or anything. He eventually encounters a second time traveller, who explains what has happened: each timeline is like a strand of spaghetti and unchangeable, and the time travellers have left the "spaghetti" and merged with the "sauce".
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Cap'n Q
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft
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"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.
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