Friday, September 23, 2011

[aqzgvawh] Calculating time travel

Suppose time travel is invented.

You are given a goal state of the universe to achieve, and instructed to go back in time and make changes in the past so that the resulting altered "present" as close as possible to the goal state according to a given metric.

How would one state this physical / mathematical problem?  How would one solve it?  How can metrics be expressed?

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