: TINE TRAVEL
If time travel is possible, then where are the
tourists from the future?
-STEPHEN HAWKING
"[Time travel] is against reason," said Filby.
"What reason?" said the Time Traveler.
-H. G. WELLS
In the novel Janus Equation, writer G. Spruill explored one of the harrowing problems with time travel. In this tale a brilliant mathematician whose goal is to discover the secret of time travel meets a strange,
beautiful woman, and they become lovers, although he knows nothing
about her past. He becomes intrigued about finding out her true identity. Eventually he discovers that she once had plastic surgery to
change her features. And that she had a sex change operation. Finally,
he discovers that "she" is actually a time traveler from the future, and
that "she" is actually himself, but from the future. This means that he
made love to himself. And one is left wondering, what would have happened if they had had a child? And if this child went back into the past,
to grow up to become the mathematician at the beginning of the story,
then is it possible to be your own mother and father and son and
daughter?