There’s a Ray Bradbury story called The Sound of Thunder about a group of travelers who
go back in time to the land of the dinosaurs. The tour guide tells them not to
dare step off of the observation platform. Well of course one of the guys does.
Then when they get back everything is a little bit different and the people
speak a slightly different language and the words look different. The guy who got off of the platform looks
at the bottom of his shoe and notices that he stepped on a moth millions of
years in the past. This caused the future to be on a slightly different track. His experience
going from the past into a different future is kind of like the experience of
moving from America to Taiwan.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
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