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Helpful Time Travel Advice
First published 10/3/1996
I think the main problem with being a time traveler would be this: when you're traveling back in time to the seventies, do you wear the bad clothes or not?

Because, if you wore modern day clothes, all the people around you would think you looked like an idiot. Whereas, if you wore seventies clothes, all the people around you would think you looked OK, but you'd know you really do look like an idiot.

There is no solution. It's a paradox. This is why current scientific thinking is that time travel is impossible, except for the Amish.

The so-called "grandfather paradox" is a phenomenon every time traveler should be aware of...

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