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Originally Posted by Harpo  Does my post from last september count as copyright for the idea? |
Sadly, and I weep for you, but no, unless you've invented a time machine and can go back even further in time to be the first one to think of the idea.
I'm afraid your idea has been pre-dated and was the basis for the fictional fundament of Quantum Leap - it wasn't the basis for QL, just for its underlying limitation theme.
I think you'll find a semi-whimsical reference to the limitation of time travel to the life-span of the time machine in A Brief History.... and if I had a more encyclopaedic memory I'd tell you where else I've read the proposition, I'm sure I've read or read about or seen on telly the same or a similar notion. It's certainly one I've been aware of for a number of years as I have tried to circumvent it in notes I made in 1995/6, and I
know I didn't come up with it myself.
Of course, fiction-wise, it's an annoyingly limiting concept. If you've read any Jenny Randles, you might come round to the idea that time travel isn't such a big deal, anyway, and with the right conditions, anyone might do it. Now, that's an idea I'd love to find out was real.