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One could also posit an Anthropic Principle of time travel: the fact that we still exist means that our universe is among the tiny subset of potential multiverses in which time travel is not discovered, or whose use is sufficiently constrained so as to not result in destruction or paradox.


Larry Niven phrased it thusly:

> If the universe of discourse permits the possibility of time travel and of changing the past, then no time machine will be invented in that universe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niven's_laws


Or that time travel is discovered so far into the future that change in our time would have un-calculable consequences even for that advanced society.

Or that they have discovered immortality and view us as a subspecies like we would neanderthals.




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