Timeline

Timeline You go back in time and kill your grandfather. As a result, you are never born so you can never go back in time to kill your grandfather. He lives and you are born. The grandfather complex is one of the many conundrums that come about when scientists theorize about time travel. The question of time travel has been around for many years. It was first written about by Mark Twain in his A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court. Since then, scientists and philosophers all over the world have debated the ethics of time travel. One of the major questions that are debated is, what would happen if a person went back in time and changed something' Would it change the world as we know it or would time correct itself so that everything is as we know it when we return to our own time. In Timeline, Michael Crichton explores the first possibility as he sends four historians back in time to help rescue one of their own. One of the major concepts introduced in Timeline, is the use of quantum mechanics to travel back in time. According to the scientists in the novel, time is like a book time, timeline, change, future, back, past, one, travel, something, affect, world, people, know, go, way, scientists, never, person, own, major, century, already, through, result, first, been, while, san, pages, over, order, novel, michael, made, kill, hundred, historians