Comments on: Time Travel… http://www.lykaon.com/2008/02/05/time-travel/ We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes... Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:35:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: halfling http://www.lykaon.com/2008/02/05/time-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-3631 halfling Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:31:14 +0000 http://blog.lykaon.com/?p=349#comment-3631 Time travel paradoxes are pretty much unsolvable (if I kill my grandfather or save a new line of family) for reverse travel if we are to believe that even observation changes a situation. Non linear time existence (Dr. Who) really doesn't fix much. But skipping huge parts of time to move forward works except for where are you while that time passes? If you're in a time machine watching the world speed by then you're in their space and people must wonder how you can sit for millenia motionless and not rot. And what if they decide to move you? Or drive a car into you? The only way to time travel is to move forward to a new time without being in any time in between. Not sure I find much reason for that. Time travel paradoxes are pretty much unsolvable (if I kill my grandfather or save a new line of family) for reverse travel if we are to believe that even observation changes a situation. Non linear time existence (Dr. Who) really doesn’t fix much. But skipping huge parts of time to move forward works except for where are you while that time passes? If you’re in a time machine watching the world speed by then you’re in their space and people must wonder how you can sit for millenia motionless and not rot. And what if they decide to move you? Or drive a car into you? The only way to time travel is to move forward to a new time without being in any time in between. Not sure I find much reason for that.

]]> By: hemisphire http://www.lykaon.com/2008/02/05/time-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-3581 hemisphire Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:55:09 +0000 http://blog.lykaon.com/?p=349#comment-3581 But you see, only Cromartie (the terminator from '99) knows what the three look like. Now it would make sense that he could leave a picture of them in a safe place, but that would end the series PDQ. The fact that the armory terminator failed in his mission instantly changes the timeline, so Skynet will not be opening the bunker in the future. The decision of Skynet was logical when it was made, and when the armory terminator was defeated, the future when that decision of Skynet was made no longer existed. But you see, only Cromartie (the terminator from ‘99) knows what the three look like. Now it would make sense that he could leave a picture of them in a safe place, but that would end the series PDQ.

The fact that the armory terminator failed in his mission instantly changes the timeline, so Skynet will not be opening the bunker in the future. The decision of Skynet was logical when it was made, and when the armory terminator was defeated, the future when that decision of Skynet was made no longer existed.

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