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"There's a poetry in the materials we use to construct our world of artifacts; it speaks of our long history as a technological species."
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![]() One of the first references in science fiction to the "Grandfather Paradox", the idea that if a person went back in time and killed their own grandfather, they they would cease to exist. And so how would that person, who never existed, go back in time?
The scientist's assistant tries to warn him:
“But it’s dangerous business, meddling with the past. What’s done is done. ‘The moving finger writes, and, having writ,
moves on.’’ You know the rest.
"We try to introduce an anachronistic element into the past, and the consequences may be incalculable."
The scientist kills his own remote ancestor and dies on the return trip in the machine.
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