Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Floating cork paradox


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The result was Delete WP:SNOW. JERRY talk contribs 01:22, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Floating cork paradox

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Essay on time travel paradox. Clearly fails WP:NOR. No ghits. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 03:40, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak delete no ghits for "floating cork paradox" though without the quotes it does find many relevant hits about a cork floating on water waves and how it relate to time travel. This is a real paradox but if it has a name, this isn't it, hence WP:NEO/WP:SYNTH. Material is probably worth merging somewhere...why is there no Time travel paradoxes page? JJL (talk) 04:11, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete The logic seems flawed. It's like saying that we can't delete an article because we won't then know that it exists. :) Colonel Warden (talk) 08:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Who is Matt Pfaff, the author of this thought experiment, and what are his credentials? I can't find anything at all. I suspect, however, that the author of this page, User:Mattmanp, may be related. Zetawoof(&zeta;) 13:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Quite interesting, but I agree that something's wrong with the logic. Anyway, it quite fails standards for articles; the phenomenon isn't verifiable (!) and no sources to demonstrate that this is a recognised theory, such as the grandfather paradox.  Nyttend (talk) 14:38, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete all evidence suggests that this paradox exists only in the mind of Matt Pfaff, and nobody has ever heard of this guy. Pichpich (talk) 17:05, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Quite obviously original research.--h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 18:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Keep thinking about it, Matt.  You're not the first person to have speculated about this, though you might be the first this year to use the analogy of a floating cork.  If you read enough science fiction, you'll run across different views on whether history can or cannot be changed.  There's the (Robert Silverberg?) story about "The Man Who Murdered Muhammad", about a time traveler who kept trying to go back in time to change history, and it never worked; and there's the "Assignment: Earth" theory from Star Trek that the time traveler was already part of history; on the other hand, there's Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" example (which in this case would mean that a dopey time traveler can pick the damn cork up out of the damn river).  Of course, there's also the parallel world theory which suggests that whenever you go back in time, you return to a different universe without negating the existence of the one you left; that's the main reason that I "just say no" when it comes to time travel. Mandsford (talk) 16:23, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong delete as OR, non-notable, and vanity insertion. -- Orange Mike  |  Talk  14:36, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


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