Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Locked thread
ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


WMain00 posted:

Feel free, you'll just create another timeline separate from ours.

Nah, that's just a bunch of sci-fi bullshit. Time isn't linear like that, only our perception of it is. All of everything already exists including whatever time travel will have occurred.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


e: yeah, the two above posts

DrSunshine posted:

Whoa, wait, what? :2bong:

Could you explain this, or, preferably, link to a book that explains it?

No links to any books, but basically it's like this

All of spacetime was released by the big bang, and so the universe is a set that contains everything. All of time is already in existence and is inextricably linked to the three dimensional space we live in. We perceive time as linear because we cannot see its whole, only how one appears to change as it moves through the other. But all of it still already exists, and should time travel at some point be possible, then everything, as it is, already played out (in our linear sense of things) with those things happening. poo poo doesn't branch off and create new timelines because time doesn't work that way.

If that makes any sense. It's too early for me to piece together all my half thoughts on how the universe works

ReidRansom fucked around with this message at 17:00 on May 19, 2015

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


the world has come to terms with the damage done by hitler. it's all baked in now. reagan is still wreaking havoc.

  • Locked thread