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What Would Happen If History Could Be Rewritten As Casually As Erasing A Blackboard? Our Past Would Be Like The Shifting Sands At The Seashore, Constantly Blown This Way Or That By The Slightest Breeze. History Would Be Constantly Changing Every Time Someone Spun The Dial Of A Time Machine And Blundered His Or Her Way Into The Past. History, As We Know It, Would Be Impossible. It Would Cease To Exist.

-Michio Kaku

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What Would Happen If History Could Be

Michio Kaku

What Would Happen If History Could Be Rewritten As Casually As Erasing A Blackboard? Our Past Would Be Like The Shifting Sands At The Seashore, Constantly Blown This Way Or That By The Slightest Breeze. History Would Be Constantly Changing Every Time Someone Spun The Dial Of A Time Machine And Blundered His Or Her Way Into The Past. History, As We Know It, Would Be Impossible. It Would Cease To Exist.

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