The Mind Creative
"It will, as my hand approaches, vanish from the platform and
appear in my hand to be placed there. Three o'clock. Notice,
please."
The cube vanished from his hand.
It appeared on the platform of the time machine.
"See? Five minutes before I shall place it there, it is there!"
His other colleague frowned at the cube. "But," he said, "what if,
now that it has already appeared five minutes before you place it
there, you should change your mind about doing so and not place
it there at three o'clock? Wouldn't there be a paradox of some sort
involved?"
"An interesting idea," Professor Johnson said. "I had not thought
of it, and it will be interesting to try. Very well, I shall not ..."
There was no paradox at all. The cube remained.
But the entire rest of the Universe, professors and all, vanished.
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