time travel myth/fear is bullshit aka official stoner discussions thread
#1
Posted 21 August 2010 - 08:01 PM
anyone else have completely pointless discussion with your friends that end up making alot of sense?
#2
Posted 21 August 2010 - 10:08 PM
#3
Posted 21 August 2010 - 10:13 PM
Here's hoping you get what I'm talking about.
#4
Posted 21 August 2010 - 10:41 PM
Time isn't linear- I'm pretty sure of that. "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff." - The Doctor
This means that paradoxes such as the going into the past and killing yourself would autocorrect because, I dunno, as an example on past you's timeline it is indeed going backward in time but for present you doing the time travel, it's going forward in a loop.
Or present you displaces past you thus eradicating present you, as past you is now the present you that will go on to become the ex-present you and it'll be a constant chain of reaction and displacement.
Past you ---> Present you is a linear timeline
Assuming present you is the one that goes back in time to kill past you, that's looping time. It has to loop otherwise it DOES become paradox. It'd be a huge cycle of progressing to the point where present you goes back in time, and where you kill yourself, you become the past you as you've been displaced into their time.
Oh fuck knows, its 5am and I've not slept in 48 hours. This is just tired rambling and bullshit.
#5
Posted 21 August 2010 - 10:47 PM
Caael, on Aug 21 2010, 10:41 PM, said:
Time isn't linear- I'm pretty sure of that. "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff." - The Doctor
This means that paradoxes such as the going into the past and killing yourself would autocorrect because, I dunno, as an example on past you's timeline it is indeed going backward in time but for present you doing the time travel, it's going forward in a loop.
Or present you displaces past you thus eradicating present you, as past you is now the present you that will go on to become the ex-present you and it'll be a constant chain of reaction and displacement.
Past you ---> Present you is a linear timeline
Assuming present you is the one that goes back in time to kill past you, that's looping time. It has to loop otherwise it DOES become paradox. It'd be a huge cycle of progressing to the point where present you goes back in time, and where you kill yourself, you become the past you as you've been displaced into their time.
Oh fuck knows, its 5am and I've not slept in 48 hours. This is just tired rambling and bullshit.
IT is a paradox. A cat always lands on it's feet. Toast always lands buttered side up. Therefore, a cat with a buttered piece of toast tapped to it's back becomes a paradox. The cat would just stay suspended in animation for the rest of eternity.
#6
Posted 21 August 2010 - 10:49 PM
#7
Posted 21 August 2010 - 11:10 PM
#8
Posted 21 August 2010 - 11:16 PM
#9
Posted 21 August 2010 - 11:43 PM
Wouldn't you just create a branching timeline if you were to go back in time and kill yourself?
#10
Posted 22 August 2010 - 07:33 AM
#11
Posted 22 August 2010 - 10:09 AM
There's a you out there that has made the right decision every single time, and there's also a homeless you out there addicted to drugs... somewhere.. xD
edit @ cat paradox - naw man, because despite not landing on the ground, that toast has stopped falling, and therefore has landed face up, which it just can not do. I know I'm taking this a bit too far, because it really is chance, but were it not, it'd be a paradox, for sure.
and props to zeypher.
#13
Posted 22 August 2010 - 10:58 AM
#19
Posted 23 August 2010 - 02:06 AM
I read a theory on Wikipedia's article for time travel where basically you can't go back in time to a date before the time machine existed (essentially, you can only go forward in time).
There's also another theory where if you go back in time at all, it creates an alternate universe that the time traveler is now part of. This theory would explain why we don't see tourists from the future everywhere.
#27
Posted 25 August 2010 - 12:32 AM
what?
#29
Posted 25 August 2010 - 01:36 AM
Edit: I want you all to know you ruined a beautiful thing by making double posts merge. I am preserving this regardless.
#32
Posted 25 August 2010 - 02:21 AM
http://www.goldensun-syndicate.net/forum/public/style_images/gssv3/snapback.png' alt='View Post' />Someone Else, on Aug 25 2010, 01:06 AM, said:
You tickle me in a place that I don't wanna talk about.
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#33
Posted 25 August 2010 - 02:26 AM
I can make dumb jokes without breaking a sweat too. Grow up.
#34
Posted 25 August 2010 - 02:29 AM
Someone Else, on Aug 25 2010, 01:26 AM, said:
I can make dumb jokes too. Grow up.
You must be talking about a different person. My mother would be comfortable talking about that sort of thing.
I make dumb jokes to get under your skin and it totally works. Yes, I'm an immature fuck, but I think you should re-examine yourself before you act superior.
edit: p.s. I feel obligated to call you a tool
#37
Posted 25 August 2010 - 03:01 AM
#38
Posted 25 August 2010 - 03:10 AM
I've misplaced that bread & butter informational the starts with
"So you've traveled back in time... here's what you need to know:"
#39
Posted 25 August 2010 - 03:18 AM
#42
Posted 25 August 2010 - 04:11 AM
#46
Posted 25 August 2010 - 07:20 AM
Quote
Otherwise known as the stone age
/endtakebait
#48
Posted 25 August 2010 - 12:03 PM
...tool
#51
Posted 25 August 2010 - 02:46 PM
Theeeere we go.
#53
Posted 25 August 2010 - 03:43 PM
#54
Posted 25 August 2010 - 04:49 PM
#55
Posted 25 August 2010 - 05:11 PM
Caael, on Aug 25 2010, 03:43 PM, said:
It's not mine.
#57
Posted 25 August 2010 - 05:42 PM
He has a good sense of humour, though. He recognizes the irony in the fact he has gaems but no PS3.
#58
Posted 25 August 2010 - 06:13 PM
#60
Posted 25 August 2010 - 08:53 PM
#62
Posted 25 August 2010 - 08:58 PM