You wait until you get to the future to see if your hypothesis was correct.  If it wasn't, you go back and change it.  It can be an iterative process before you get a positive result.
Every time I try that I get *really* confused.    Even my lab notes seem to get all jumbled up and self-contradictory.

Since I've been re-reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I think I have been a bit influenced by Zaphod Beeblebrox's approach to things.

I suppose he would suggest something like:

    "You just have to avoid looking directly into the future as you try to change it, lest it get all skittish and refuse to cooperate."

Carry On,
 - Steve

--Doug

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote:
So how do you test a hypothesis that the future is interfering with the present?

-- rec --

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
Fairly far out there.  Here's one I stumbled across yesterday that is way far out there:

The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate



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