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Letter: Letter

Published 11 October 2003

From Rex Anderson

There is an easily verifiable proof that time travel is impossible, which I was able to demonstrate only the other night in The Angel pub in London’s St Giles High Street.

I took several sheets of blank paper and at the top of the first I wrote “Plans For Time Machine”. Under this I wrote “© Rex Anderson 2003”. Then I wrote: “As soon as this time machine is constructed, I or whoever takes up the challenge after me will return to this bar at [this time] on [this date] and complete the plan.”

I then pinned the sheets of paper to the darts notice board and, to avoid any space/time anomaly of my having to meet myself, my friends and I adjourned to the other bar. We are still waiting.

London, UK

Issue no. 2416 published 11 October 2003

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