I've been thinking about time travel lately!
YOU THINK ABOUT TIME TRAVEL CONSTANTLY
That's true; I AM pretty great!
And it occurs to me that time travel will revolutionize the social sciences!
For the first time ever these "social" sciences can become true hard-core sciences: we'll be able to do EXPERIMENTS. Go back in time to an interesting economic situation and see how different solutions work! We'll finally be able to control initial conditions!
I agree!
But then we'll have to pay people to go back in time!
Again, they'll be charged with "going back in time" and so altering initial conditions to be GOOD.
These "changes" will have an important bearing on how our science is understood!
Yes! It is a basis upon which all future scholarship will be concluded.
I therefore suspend the search for a causally-unified truth, or God, and invoke the wonders of time travel!
As you have obviously noticed, my friends, my scientific theories have not been universally popular.