When I read the article I had a flash of a scene where the time traveling Scotty accidentally lets slip some comment about harvesting anti-matter from thunderstorms in front of several engineers and within 20 years they have used the money made from transparent aluminum production to developed Blimps that actually harvest economically significant amounts of anti-matter from thunderstorms.
I've never really liked the standard TV plot device depiction of the time traveler's paradox, that is probably why I never thought of Bob's idea of "Back to the future", but it would have been cool to have Marty casually make some mention of just harvesting some anti-matter from the next thunderstorm. Alternately have the Doc from the past/future make some statement about his steam train time machine being run off of anti-matter harvested from thunderstorms.
hmelton
God bless
I've never really liked the standard TV plot device depiction of the time traveler's paradox, that is probably why I never thought of Bob's idea of "Back to the future", but it would have been cool to have Marty casually make some mention of just harvesting some anti-matter from the next thunderstorm. Alternately have the Doc from the past/future make some statement about his steam train time machine being run off of anti-matter harvested from thunderstorms.
hmelton
God bless