This week's letter comes from two charming young men in San Dimas, CA. They write:
Hey how's it hangin', Time Travel Companion dudes? I'm Ted "Theodore" Logan and my friend here is Bill S. Preston, Esquire. And together, we're Wyld Stallyns! Oh, uh, anyway, we were wondering how whenever we just say we're going to do something in the past to change the present it always works even if we didn't actually do anything. It's totally non-heinous but our bodacious girlfriends told us to ask you.
Be excellent to each other and party on dudes!
Dear Bill and Ted,
We have to admit, your letter was a bit unclear but after having looked into your case, it would seem that the reason why you can accomplish things without actually doing them before hand has to do with a time travel concept called the predestination paradox. This paradox is created when you go back in time to "do something" that changes the course of the future before you even go back in time to it. A classic example is of a man who goes back in time to find out the cause of a famous fire and ends up accidentally starting the fire himself. As you might notice this creates a causal loop in which the man creates his own reason for traveling back in time. The difference between the fire example and what you guys are doing is that you choose to change the present by going back in time. So planning to do something in the past to change the future works out just fine as long as you really go and do it.
Good luck with the band!
-the T.T.C. Staff
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i can't believe bill and ted have myspace profiles.
Would you travel back in time to kill Hitler? And also, have there been other crazy insane dictators out there that have been killed by time travelers before their reign of terror? I guess if the time line had been changed then the world would never know about them.
A bodacious letter by the ever-charming Bill and Ted. This reminds me of a good Futurama episode in which Fry is making popcorn on the ship while the rest of the crew is watching a supernova explosion, and this somehow causes them to travel back in time. They crash land in Roswell where Fry meets his grandmother and impregnates her.
In regards to the predestination paradox I think Professor Farnsworth said it best, "Don't do anything, unless of course you are meant to do it, then for God's sake, don't not do it."
Killer info, but now I'm wondering about Marty McFly's time travel. He obviously wasn't meant to change his own future, but then, how did he stay the same when his whole family changed?
Fun page. I enjoied reading and clicking on all the links. I really like the structure of the page too, but I had a hard time grasping the time travel concept so I did a little research and found a simple explaination from PBS on how time travel works. Can't wait for the next post.
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