Talk:Temporal mechanics

This article seems useless
My first impression is that the article Time travel was far more informative and educational than this article here. I'm almost hard pressed to find anything here that isn't better covered in article Time travel already.

As of the current revision, the article starts off with this introductory sentence:


 * Temporal mechanics is an entirely theoretical area of quantum physics devoted to thought experiments regarding time and causality, and the effects of time travel on them.

Yet nowhere in the article did it go into more details about anything quantum-mechnical at all! Much of it is just standard discussion regarding causality paradoxes related to time travel, with little that's related to anything scientific, let alone quantum mechanics.

Indeed much of the article beyond the introduction simply goes into various resolution of the time traveling paradoxes exemplified by popular fiction, but this is already covered in one of Time travel article's sections.

I added a mergeto tag in case someone did manage to find information here that isn't already covered in the target article Time travel. If there really isn't much to merge, I strongly encourage changing the tag to get the article nominated for deletion &mdash; until someone convincingly argues this article deserves an existence outside of article Time travel. (Alternatively we can turn this page into a redirect to article Time travel.) In any case, article Temporal mechanics can probably use some rewriting. 24.16.27.166 03:43, 6 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Merge/redirect has my vote. It seems like an honest attempt to contribute usefully, but it doesn't seem to do anything that time travel doesn't do better. --Christopher Thomas 21:44, 24 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok I've waited long enough. Since only one person commented and they support a merge/redirect, I have now replaced the entire article content with a redirect to article Time travel.  The pre-redirect version of this article can always be restored from the article history if necessary. 24.19.184.243 04:42, 30 June 2006 (UTC)