Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation
Author:
Publication date:
1977-08
Publication type:
Short Story
Published:
Analog, August 1977
Opus No.:
102
Setting:
Time Travel/Parallel Universe
Summary:
Niven borrowed the title of a mathematics paper by Frank J. Tipler for this look at the principle of "cosmic censorship," the way the universe protects itself (sometimes rather violently) from the paradoxes implied by time travel.
Notes:
Title stolen from a mathematics paper by Frank J. Tipler
Reprints:
Microcosmic Tales, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander, Taplinger 1980;
Japanese, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1981, along with an extensive interview with photos;
Anthology, Time Machines: The Best Time Travel Stories Ever Written, ed. Bill Adler, Jr., Carroll & Graf, December 1997, hardbound;
Convergent Series