A person, lets call them "Bubba," wants to win the lottery. A few days
beforehand he records a video of himself. At the same time a few days after
the lottery (the "future") the "time-traveller" is viewing the video with
the winning lottery numbers in hand and "transmitting" the numbers back to
Bubba who is currently still recording the video (or sometime around that
time). Bubba then knows the numbers and buys a lotto ticket. A few days
later Bubba wins the lottery. For this to happen the numbers must have
reach the "time-traveller", but I don't think you would have to be too
worried about getting them to the time-traveller too much because the
numbers "will" get to them. Remember they may have been sent from the
future but they were received in bubba's past. So in other words the future
was in the past and worked like anything else that occurs in our past to
influence our future. So through cause and effect the numbers had to be
known by the time-traveller, which means if bubba won the time-traveller in
the future would have received the numbers, for if the time-traveller did
not receive the information then bubba would not have won (unless Bubba is
lucky enough to win).
"He will win because he has."
That however is talking about "ridged" time, ie doesn't flex. The one I
might go with is the "semi-fluid" time. It might be a bit like corn flour
and water(or is that milk?) when mixed together. It is like a fluid and you
can run your fingers through it if you use slow movements, but it is stiff
and solid when punched.
Matthew.
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