,the ,,great ,,implication ,by ,,stanley ,r4 ,,lee ,illustrated by ,,finlay ,pendelton outlined an experiment to test the existence of the ,god-idea4 ,the question then became obviously3 was the experiment ,pendelton's idea--or ,god's8 ,transcriber's ,note3 ,this etext was produced from ,amazing ,stories ,august #aifa4 ,extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the ,u4,s4 copyright on this publication was renewed4 ,was there something contagious about ignorance8 ,pendelton wondered aloud that day4 ,was it inevitable1 was it in the air the same as ideas were8 ,he thought that might be the answer because what else could explain the fact that a couple of accomplished physicists were about to fall into a time-honored trap that was already gorged with old1 rancid science fiction writers2 and not only rancid1 but crooked3 they accepted pay for writing about a subject they knew nothing of and wasn't that stealing8 ,pendelton wasn't actually trying to be obnoxious4 ,in fact he liked to make good impressions4 ,he smiled a lot1 for instance4 ,and he kept his hands in his pockets so he wouldn't point4 ,he had a peculiar blunt-subtle mind1 half of which could split hairs with a ,jesuit while the other half couldn't distinguish between a pat on the back and a punch in the jaw4 ,he rolled right along1 smiling and telling them they knew nothing about time travel4 ,nothing4 ,they were babes in the temporal woods6 ,having a time machine under construction meant that they were in the possession of what he referred to as mathematical conceptuosity plus above average hardware skills4 ,but that didn't necessarily raise them above the level of the science fiction writers when it came to applications4 ,or the editors4 ,the readers too1 for that matter1 all blithely playing their cosy little after-the-fact parts in a fantastic world-wide conspiracy of ignorance4 ,blackburn and ,shaheen1 of course1 thought he was out of his mind4 ,they'd only agreed to listen to him because he had a letter from the ,humanities department head1 that and a wild1 intense expression on his face which made them think it would be easier to hear him out than throw him out1 so they sat at their back-to-back desks glancing at each other occasionally while ,pendelton rambled on about the ,great ,implication and how it was one day going to separate the logical men from the paradoxical boys--and after about twenty minutes of this they were actually listening to him4 ,so that six months later ,blackburn and ,shaheen got into a violent argument in the office of the university president1 ,dr4 ,freylinghuysen1 the two mathematical-physicists completely unable to agree on the color of a girl's dress1 a girl they'd not only never seen in their lives before ten that morning1 but one who subsequently leveled charges of assault and malicious mischief and attempted rape at the university along with a civil suit for #ej1jjj4 ,although it had to be said in ,pendelton's defense that it wasn't his fault4 ,it was ,chaplain ,rowan who sprinted across ,voltaire ,mall and attempted to strip ,miss ,ethel ,chattinger1 purely in the interest of science of course but the young lady couldn't quite see it that way1 especially since ,rowan1 the university chaplain1 had gotten away with quite a swatch1 a large jagged piece of knit woolen dress which he later on triumphantly deposited on ,dr4 ,freylinghuysen's desk1 only to find that he hadn't really proved anything at all other than that perhaps ,miss ,chattinger--otherwise known as the either_/or proposition--was not a quick change artist and the ,humanities department's #ce-year-old prodigy of an air conditioner repairman ,leopold ,pendelton wasn't a practical joker4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the first thing1 ,pendelton said that first day1 is for you to forget about paradox4 ,paradox has nothing to do with time travel4 ,nothing4 ,it's a monkeying around with words for purposes of profit and it has no place in the office of two experimental physicists4 ,anyone who answers an honest question with a paradox is a guaranteed shifty character and the chances are he's writing on the sly4 ,preoccupied with not sounding obnoxious1 ,pendelton missed ,blackburn's ostentatiously bored expression1 didn't notice the enormous sarcastic attention that ,shaheen was giving him4 ,instead1 he remarked3 ,feel free to interrupt me with questions4 ,i want to finish off paradox so we can get on to the ,great ,implication4 ,will that be a satisfactory procedure8 ,he hovered over the desks staring at them with big eyes until they slowly nodded their heads up and down4 ,okay4 ,now4 ,a man travels in time1 he said4 ,he travels in time and fifty million years ago he steps on a moth4 ,fantastic4 ,you wouldn't believe the effect one humble moth could have6 ,the man returns to the present and finds to his guilty astonishment that the ,empire ,state building is now flying the ,bolivian flag and gargoyles are sticking out of the #gith floor4 ,this is cute so be careful of it4 ,boy meets moth1 boy loses moth--gargoyles6 ,except that all those not completely devoid of common sense or debauched by poetic license would know that if the gargoyles were there they were there before he went back in time4 ,his own body is a part of a continuum of which those gargoyles are a prior sequential segment2 his entire life is so inextricably wrapped up in those gargoyles that he couldn't possibly be surprised by them1 or by any other change he'd caused4 ,as he returned to the present his memory would alter4 ,to take any other view of this--to close your eyes and hide behind paradox--is going to get us all in trouble because you've got yourselves a real time traveler now and it's about time you started thinking about these things4 7,well why didn't you say so1 ,blackburn murmured4 ,be glad to think about it1 give it every consideration4 ,we'll be in touch4 ,i don't think he heard you1 ,shaheen said47 ,i won't even bother discussing the suicide-by-killing-old-grandpa myth1 ,pendelton buzzed on with a great deal of imperturbability1 other than to point out there is no such thing as negative feedback as applied to human beings4 ,i realize that's only a small nuance4 ,but then1 take care of the nuances and the breakthroughs will take care of themselves1 ,i always say4 7,oh ,lord1 ,blackburn whispered47 99 99 99 99 99 ,another small point4 ,i hate to verbalize the obvious like this but it clears the ground1 don't you think8 ,i realize you two might like to traipse back through time and have a friendly chat with1 say1 ,mike ,faraday4 ,but that's exactly what you can't do4 ,you know a little too much about time machines4 ,he'd pick your brains in half an afternoon and beat you back to your own office4 ,as ,i say that's only a nuance4 ,it's a nuance that eliminates #ge of all time travel science fiction ever written but that's still only a nuance1 wait till ,i get to the ,great ,implication4 ,it was a curious word for him to have used--nuance--because six months later in ,dr4 ,freylinghuysen's office ,blackburn and ,shaheen were to tangle over the nuance of blue versus green1 a matter of observation which compared in subtlety to apples versus bananas1 ,shaheen saying heatedly3 ,the dress was blue4 ,i'm not color blind and ,i have twenty-twenty vision4 ,i'll stake my reputation as an experimental physicist on it4 ,blue6 ,and this was a lucid well defined statement of his position1 a statement rivaled in lucidity only by that of ,blackburn who had in all sincerity to insist that the dress was blue--but only #aj3ca that morning at which time it turned green2 and if that wasn't bad enough a panting red faced chaplain ,rowan had to dash in1 carefully locking the door behind him and taking out a huge swatch of dress which he plunked down on the desk shouting3 ,green1 green1 green6 ,green as the envious devils of hell6 ,green ,i say6 ,green before1 green after1 green for eternity6 ,i think1 in spite of all1 ,blackburn remarked1 you've managed to find a way4 ,no1 but that's interesting1 ,shaheen said4 ,semantically1 anyway4 ,i will did4 ,curious4 ,a grammatical revolution6 ,pendelton was telling them that first day4 ,i do1 ,i did do1 ,i will do4 ,i have done1 ,i will have done4 ,i do1 ,i did do1 ,i will do4 ,i have done1 ,i will have done1 ,i should have done1 ,i will did6 ,they're all the same now6 ,so you see1 ,i'm not really wasting your time4 ,the future and the past are now united in a fantastic tenseless embrace4 ,at some time in the future ,i can in the past save ,caesar's life4 ,thus1 there being no more future and past1 how can ,i be wasting your time8 ,more than curious1 ,pendelton replied4 ,practical4 ,the ,greeks as you may know thought that no man could be sure he had a happy life until it was over4 ,i on the other hand assert that ,caesar's assassination is still in doubt because of the future-past equivalence1 that he has not yet successfully crossed the ,rubicon1 that he is still swimming to the ,alexandrian lighthouse1 that he is not yet emperor of a ,rome that has not yet fallen6 ,not emperor and yet 444 emperor4 ,not yet fallen and yet 444 fallen and gone like--what8 ,the wind8 ,no1 not even the wind4 ,nothing is gone1 it's all still there moiling and seething around in temporal abeyance4 ,waiting to be resolved6 ,give me a time machine and ,i can mold every second of ,caesar's existence and1 incidentally1 by extension1 my own4 ,the ,greeks therefore were wrong4 ,a man can no longer be sure he was happy even when he's dead6 99 99 99 99 99 ,blackburn leaned back in his chair and inquired blandly3 ,did we get to the great implication yet8 ,if you were listening we did1 ,pendelton answered4 ,elementary theology3 if man's fate is determined there must of necessity be a ,determiner whom we will call for the sake of convention1 ,god4 ,determinism without a ,god1 needless to say1 is eighteenth century mechanistic twaddle4 ,but suppose now that a man can determine his own fate8 ,run it through your machine again and again until he gets it down the way he wants it with all degrees of freedom and irrespective of his merit or karma or sinlessness or however our cosmic report cards are supposed to be made out8 ,in that case man becomes his own determiner1 the individual conscious mind becomes the deity and that which we have heretofore referred to as ,god becomes what is known as an outdated archetype4 ,good ,god1 ,shaheen said4 ,but spelled with a small g1 ,pendelton replied4 ,that is the ,great ,implication4 ,you mean to say he was proposing to disprove ,god's existence8 ,dr4 ,freylinghuysen said to them that day4 ,and with university equipment8 ,don't you gentlemen realize ,i have trouble enough with the trustees as it is8 ,and ,chaplain ,rowan1 who had long since lost the ability to react spontaneously--slipping back and forth almost on schedule between catatonia and ,st4 ,vitus dance--said3 ,why are you sitting there doing nothing8 ,why isn't the city being scoured8 ,if that dress isn't proof enough for you1 that man is loose somewhere with colored motion pictures of the whole thing4 ,what more do you want8 ,a little illumination is all1 ,freylinghuysen replied4 ,all ,i've heard so far is some rather loose discussion about free will and determinism and it wasn't very convincing4 ,didn't anyone bother to point out to this ,leopold ,pendelton that you can't prove or disprove anything about your own determined existence since the proof or disproof itself could be determined8 ,yes1 ,blackburn answered4 99 99 99 99 99 ,blackburn had thought over the ,great ,implication for about two seconds4 ,you have been wasting our time1 he said4 ,you cannot actively disprove determinism because the disproof--the experiment itself--could be a part of your own determined existence1 arranged by your ,determiner4 ,god might1 for instance1 allow the experiment to be successful merely to test your faith in ,him1 the same way he allowed you to get the idea in the first place4 ,an odd smile crossed ,pendelton's face4 ,you really think so8 he asked4 ,you figure ,he'd try and cross me up like that8 ,let's go back and take this a step at a time4 ,specifically1 why can't ,i play ,god with ,caesar's life8 ,wouldn't prove anything1 ,shaheen said4 ,god could have determined you in the selection of ,caesar's name4 ,the change would therefore be ,his doing1 not yours1 it would still be old ,god playing ,god with ,caesar's fortunes4 ,but it doesn't have to be ,caesar4 ,that was only an example1 it could be anyone4 ,control anyone's destiny1 anyone at all1 and you've proven the point4 ,we could select our man by means of a computer1 by random sampling over which only the physical laws of the universe had control1 thus eliminating determinacy in the selection4 ,but ,god could alter the laws of chance4 ,after all1 they are ,his laws4 ,a second-rate miracle would force you into selecting ,his man4 ,you mean1 ,pendelton asked1 that if ,i selected a name every morning at #aj3jd-a_/b ,god would do a miracle at the same time8 ,ye-es1 ,shaheen answered4 ,but if one morning ,i changed my mind and waited until a quarter past two to select the name1 ,he'd hold off and wait for me1 wouldn't ,he8 ,there was rather a long silence4 ,he couldn't very well perform ,his miracle until ,i'd picked my name1 could ,he8 ,hmmmmm1 ,shaheen said4 ,and if ,i decided to wait until #c3ae1 ,he'd have to wait too4 ,and if ,i decided not to pick a name we'd do without a miracle that day4 ,the fact is1 ,i'd be telling ,him what to do4 ,put me in the possession of a random sampling computer and a time machine and ,i1 ,leopold ,pendelton1 would be the bigger ,god6 ,and the point was well taken1 ,shaheen had to admit1 pouring off some of ,dr4 ,freylinghuysen's ice water4 ,we could for example use a computer to select at random any one of all the phone books in the ,united ,states1 then a page in that one book1 then a line4 ,that one name would then truly be randomly selected4 ,assuming of course1 ,blackburn said1 that you had first used the computer to randomly select the country whose phone books were to be used4 ,and also the particular year's edition1 ,freylinghuysen murmured4 ,it was fairly ingenious1 ,shaheen said1 especially when you consider that knowing how to do it meant you didn't have to bother4 ,it was enough just to know we could4 ,the only point that needed experimental verification was3 could we in fact alter the past8 ,change something1 anything at all and everything else followed1 including the death of ,god4 ,you mean the death of the concept of ,god1 ,blackburn added4 ,ah yes1 ,shaheen answered1 glancing guiltily at ,chaplain ,rowan4 ,the question was1 what were we going to change and how were we going to know it changed8 99 99 99 99 99 ,chaplain ,rowan had been ,shaheen's idea4 ,it had occurred to him one day as he and ,blackburn were crossing the campus and he had observed to his colleague that things were looking bad for ,god4 ,it's every man for ,himself1 ,blackburn had replied4 ,if ,i'm not mistaken that's one of ,his own laws4 ,after all1 who invented survival of the fittest8 ,seriously1 ,shaheen said4 ,a1 we've got a time machine4 ,b1 having ,a1 there's no reason that ,i can see why we can't change the past4 ,and ,c1 if we do1 well1 they'll be using cathedrals for bowling alleys4 ,maybe now we'll see what kind of a loser ,he makes4 ,look here ,blackburn1 you needn't parade your atheism so ostentatiously4 ,i'm well aware of it4 ,in fact that's what's bothering me4 ,you're an atheist whereas ,i 444 well1 ,i never did make up my mind about ,god4 ,that's not very astute of me1 ,i suppose1 but ,i haven't4 ,i'm betwixt and between1 and so ,i was wondering if it wouldn't be only fair to have a representative of the other side in on this4 ,for a few seconds there was only the sound of their shoes on the bluestone walk that threaded across the stunted fall grass of the campus4 ,fair8 ,you're using the word fair in connection with a scientific experiment8 ,only because its outcome seems so obvious to us4 ,we have strong preconceptions and because of them we're liable to overlook possibilities4 ,i think we should have someone with us who expects the experiment to work out differently1 someone who believes implicitly in ,his existence4 ,blackburn thought about it as they rose in the ,physics building elevator4 ,well why not1 he said1 smiling in his peculiar catastrophic fashion4 ,you and ,i have an aggregate of #gj years experience in the laboratory1 why not bring in a clergyman to check our techniques1 be in keeping with the general tone of this whole thing4 ,hell1 yes6 99 99 99 99 99 ,later that day ,brokley ,l4 ,rowan listened with a frozen serious face as they declared their intentions to him4 ,a young and conscientious man who spent a great deal of time telling budding undergraduate physicists that ,god was every bit as ubiquitous as ,planck's constant1 he listened without one word of complaint1 not protesting that they'd put him in a theologically impossible position1 a position in which the only two alternatives were to either refuse to look after ,his interests or else participate in a piece of sacrilegion the purpose of which was to demonstrate that the first alternative was not a valid one4 ,and when he met ,pendelton a week later in the ,physics building1 ,pendelton told him3 ,you and ,i'll get along fine4 ,i want it to be clearly understood that ,i have nothing against the church4 ,chaplain ,rowan took his glasses off and began cleaning them4 ,and there's absolutely nothing for you to worry about4 ,even if we do disprove ,him there'll always be doubters4 ,you count on a certain percentage of people who won't believe our evidence4 ,you'll get all the skeptics showing up on ,sunday morning as usual4 ,shaheen spoke with compensating soberness4 ,what ,i thought we'd do1 he said1 is hold daily discussions on strategy4 ,that way you can question any assumptions we make1 check our logic1 object as you see fit4 ,what we're trying to be about this thing is fair1 ,blackburn said4 ,of course1 ,rowan replied4 ,now the first point ,i wish to raise1 ,shaheen said1 is in regard to the gargoyles4 ,they're very important1 the gargoyles4 ,chaplain ,rowan sat down on the window sill4 ,if the gargoyles are a product of the past-change1 ,blackburn put in1 anticipating the problem1 how are we going to know it8 ,how are we going to perceive the change8 ,that the question8 ,aren't you going to ask what gargoyles have to do with this8 ,pendelton said to ,chaplain ,rowan4 ,i don't believe ,i will1 ,rowan replied1 lighting up his pipe4 ,the answer1 ,blackburn said1 is this3 the experimental observer1 not the one who takes the time trip1 must be standing in plain view of the building4 ,he must be expecting gargoyles to appear4 ,when they do1 he will not be tempted to call the phenomenon a miracle4 ,when the gargoyles suddenly pop out--in apparent defiance of various physical laws--he can intelligently conclude that a specific time experiment has been performed and that a change in the past has in fact occurred1 a conclusion that will restore the appearance of the gargoyles to the realm of non-miraculous events4 ,then the change we make must be so specific1 must have such easily deducible consequences1 that we'll be able to anticipate our equivalent of the gargoyles4 ,sort of like an either_/or proposition1 ,blackburn said4 ,find an event that can go only one of two ways4 ,switch this event from its already proceeding alternative to the bypassed1 the not-used1 the temporally-no-longer-existing possibility4 ,the independent observer1 watching the one disappear and the other take its place1 will then know that the past has changed4 ,it will prove the principle that man can determine his fate and is therefore alone4 ,rowan nodded1 chewing on his pipe4 ,i'll wait'll it's over1 though1 he said4 99 99 99 99 99 ,president ,freylinghuysen filled a glass with ice water4 ',you cannot take ,god's photograph1' he said4 ,surrealism4 ,sheer surrealism4 ,was he smiling when he said it8 ,of course he was smiling1 ,blackburn replied bleakly4 ,he's always smiling4 ,after making man's first trip through time1 ,freylinghuysen said1 he stepped out of the physics building to find your either_/or proposition yelling its head off and ,rowan here standing in the center of ,voltaire ,mall with half a dress in his hand4 ,so ,i'm surprised he was smiling4 ,but what was he talking about8 ,and why1 ,shaheen said1 did he push ,blackburn into the shrubbery and run off with the camera8 ,i don't understand that at all4 ,he turned away4 ,oh1 ,i suppose there's plenty ,i don't understand4 ,what about on the trip1 ,freylinghuysen offered4 ,could something have happened-- ,what8 ,blackburn replied4 ,he went back in time exactly one hour4 ,he was to walk to ,ethel ,chattinger's apartment4 7,that fabulous woman1 ,freylinghuysen murmured47 ,all he had to do was spill india ink over one of the two new dresses she'd bought4 ,apparently1 the most trying problem of her recent existence was to decide which of the two to wear to her ,spanish coach this morning4 ,but he'd be ruining the dress he'd already seen her wearing an hour later on the ,mall4 ,and that's as subtle a way of getting a girl's dress off as you're likely to find1 ,freylinghuysen remarked4 ,although tearing them off has its points too1 he added1 looking at the ceiling4 ,then what could have gone wrong8 ,blackburn asked4 ,as far as ,i can see1 ,freylinghuysen answered1 the only flaw in this experiment was the scientists themselves4 ,your observations positively reek with subjectivity4 ,to ,rowan1 the dress was green1 always green4 ,this just happens to prove ,rowan's original belief1 namely that the past can't be altered and therefore ,he exists4 ,the atheist on the other hand1 he glanced at ,blackburn1 has seen what looks like a miracle--a material object changing a basic physical quality right before his eyes4 ,strangely enough this miracle goes to prove that there are no such things as miracles4 ,blackburn's case is also proven4 ,you saw what you wanted to4 ,take ,shaheen here4 ,he was positive the dress was blue all the time--until he saw ,rowan's experimenter's sample--and so now he's back at his old stand3 the fence4 99 99 99 99 99 ,there was an embarrassed silence1 since two scientists had quietly to own up to the crime of subjectivity in the laboratory while the theologian had to somehow dispose of a piece of spurious rationality that might be forgiven but would never be forgotten4 ,and then the door opened and a smiling face appeared4 ,what'd everyone run away for8 ,pendelton said4 ,the president was the first to recover4 ,everyone will please remain seated and calm1 he said to the others4 ,calm be damned6 ,blackburn answered4 ,this one has a punch in the nose coming--and where the devil's my camera8 ,should have told me you were going to take pictures1 ,pendelton said1 gingerly handing it over4 ,would have saved us a lot of trouble4 ,and if you're interested in facts it wasn't me that snatched it1 it was a law student4 ,i guess he figured it might have some legal use4 ,there's some interesting footage in it starring ,chaplain ,rowan and a disturbing young creature named ,ethel4 ,he tossed a yellow box on the desk4 ,you see chaplain1 ,i'm not anti-clerical after all4 ,rowan's eyes flicked from ,pendelton to the box and back again4 ,that's the film8 he said4 ,pendelton nodded4 ,shaheen wet his lips4 ,you develop it8 he said4 ,yep4 ,he's playing with us1 ,freylinghuysen said4 ,well1 ,i can't say ,i blame him4 ,after all1 how many times in a man's life does he get a scoop like this8 ,look1 he said1 turning to ,pendelton1 there seems to have been some disagreement about what happened on the ,mall this morning4 ,we've got eyewitnesses proving anything you want4 ,you've seen the film1 maybe you'd like to tell us4 ,he thumbed the desk top1 trying to think of a decorous way to phrase it4 ,oh hell1 is ,he or isn't ,he8 ,pendelton pursed his lips and thought a moment4 ,i'm not in a position to say at this time1 he said4 ,four of the five men sat frowning because1 in conversations with the fifth1 time had continually to be allowed for recovering4 ,then ,rowan's eyes brightened and he jumped up4 ,i take it you mean by that the dress was green all the time1 he said1 giving a rhetorical answer4 ,but don't start ringing bells over it1 ,pendelton said1 smiling4 ,i ought to explain that it had to be green4 ,not because there's a ,god1 but because it had to4 ,couldn't be anything else4 ,except always blue1 of course4 ,always blue1 always green1 but nothing in between4 ,it rhymes4 ,he shrugged his shoulders4 ,because when you change the past1 why then you change the past and that includes cameras and film which are often also a part of the past4 ,green all the time1 ,rowan said1 looking around at the others4 ,green4 ,green and immaterial6 ,pendelton replied4 ,green and irrelevant1 green and so what6 ,we took the wrong approach4 ,i didn't realize it until ,i saw ,blackburn getting it down on film4 ,film is part of the past1 so it changes4 ,but our heads are also a part of the past4 ,they change too4 ,there was a flash of white teeth against his flushed face as he said3 ,depressing1 isn't it8 99 99 99 99 99 ,wait a minute1 ,shaheen said4 ,but it's true4 ,the man watching the gargoyles pop out of the ,empire ,state ,building would not have noticed anything4 ,quite suddenly the gargoyles would always have been there4 ,the human mind can be toyed with as though it were a piece of film1 a coating of silver nitrate crystals on celluloid4 ,it's positively degrading6 ,wait a minute1 ,shaheen said1 pressing his head between his fists4 ,something's wrong4 ,you spilled ink on one of that girl's dresses4 ,the blue one apparently4 ,i spilled ink on a co-temporally-earlier edition of the dress the girl was wearing on ,voltaire ,mall1 ,pendelton said1 but can you guarantee she wasn't wearing the green dress to begin with8 ,you can't4 ,now ,i'll say this slowly4 ,if you change the past then you can have no memory of what it was before you changed it and therefore you can never prove that you have changed it4 ,he sighed and sat down4 ,i'd like that to be known as ,pendelton's ,exclusion ,principle4 ,it's a shame really1 ,rowan remarked1 you went to an awful lot of trouble4 ,well1 the president said slowly1 ,i don't know but that it might be better to keep physics and metaphysics apart after this4 ,like church and state4 ,metaphysical questions1 after all1 are those that don't have answers4 ,a frown passed briefly over ,pendelton's countenance4 ,wait a minute1 he said4 ,as ,i recall it1 ,i said something about the wrong approach1 ,i don't remember saying the jig was up4 ,as far as ,i'm concerned1 we've only tried the past so far1 we haven't scratched the future4 ,take the year #bjfh for example1 ,pendelton said1 smiling at them1 trying not to sound obnoxious4 ,if existence is really determined the events of that year are already written down 444 sort of4 ,he suddenly whirled on ,rowan4 ,there is no question of ,god changing his mind between now and then since there is nothing that could possibly happen between now and then that would surprise ,him1 give ,him a reason for changing ,his mind1 because if ,he did ,he would be violating ,his own definition which includes absolute knowledge of all events past and future4 99 99 99 99 99 ,rowan1 immovable1 stared back at him4 ,but we need two time machines1 ,pendelton resumed4 ,i know1 these things are expensive but if you're really interested you'll ram it past the trustees4 ,stop6 ,freylinghuysen said4 ,no1 go ahead4 ,damn6 ,i won't go through this again1 ,rowan shouted1 rising4 ,all he's going to do is play more tricks with words6 ,won't hurt to listen to him1 ,freylinghuysen replied4 ,now we send one time machine back to #ahfh by means of the other4 ,then one of us travels to #bjfh from #ahfh while another goes to that allegedly same year #bjfh from the present1 from #aifh4 ,see what ,i'm getting at8 ,shaheen slowly nodded his head and then closed one eye4 ,if there's free will1 ,blackburn mumbled1 they won't meet4 ,let's look for exclusion principles1 ,freylinghuysen commented1 putting the balls of his fingers together and staring at the ceiling4 ,rowan1 ignored1 watched them for a few seconds and sat down again4 ,after a while he began to wonder how many experiments it would take before ,pendelton found the proof he was looking for4 ,,the ,,end