How the Future Tried to Save the Present

Allan Milne Lees
Nov 1 · 9 min read

As the chef says, too many grandfathers spoil the paradox

In 2073 humanity finally learned how to conquer time. Once the interplay between quantum gravity and General Relativity was properly understood, and as mega-scale quantum computers permitted calculation of trillions of variables to yield probability wave-functions suitable for calculating not only when in the past an event occurred but…

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Allan Milne Lees

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Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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