While I'm on the way to NYC to meet up with Chris as we get ready to kick off the NYAS Two Cultures conference, let's turn the blog back to exploring LOST... Last time, we considered time travel, and whether the position of where you arrive through such travel might be predictable. A series of thought-provoking responses ensued, covering everything from the notion of fixed points in space to matters of the competency of your pilot. Now for round two... Readers who've been following LOST know that if the island's resident physicist, Daniel Faraday, was right, then variables (a.k.a., time travelers) can alter the future. [
Paging Marty McFly
]. So let's reexamine the possibility of the space-time continuum by imagining that you are that variable. Say you've made the journey back in time, but yout memories and experiences from the 21st century suggest to you that you have already ...
