Just for Fun: Time Traveling for Fun and Profit

A Time-Traveler Convention...

Once in a while I have to put something here just because it's fun. Did you see this in World Magazine?

Fest of time

MIT student Amal Dorai is throwing a party he hopes will be for the ages. All ages. Mr. Dorai is throwing the first—and possibly last—Time Traveler Convention at the Boston-area campus. "You only need one," he said. "The chance that anybody shows up is small, but if it happens it will be one of the biggest events in human history." Mr. Dorai, who's providing chips and dip for anyone traveling back from the future, said he's publicized the event by slipping invitations on acid-free paper into library books. Time travelers will prove their future standing, the student said, by bringing a cure for cancer or something like a future sports almanac.
All I can say is, it would be great fun if it worked. I have my doubts, though, that this party would be the first thing in history that a time-traveler would drop in on. I can't blame him for trying: a cure for cancer would be wonderful. The "future sports almanac" idea, on the other hand, is fraught with the time-travel paradoxes that science fiction loves to feature.

The idea has certainly worked for one thing: Amal Dorai's party is getting more publicity than the average student shindig!

Posted: Fri - May 13, 2005 at 10:14 AM |

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Just for Fun: Time Traveling for Fun and Profit

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