In article <1346473@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, ddl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> In article <5tCdnenMn-wFs0nanZ2dnUVZ_r-vnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
arthur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Arthur Lipscomb) writes:
> |
> | <spike1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> | news:5iada5-5ag.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | > Ken from Chicago <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> did eloquently
scribble:
> | >> They can check out anytime they like, but they can never leave!
> | >
> | >> Well, at least not the city anyway. They city HAS to remain in the
> | >> Pegasus
> | >> galaxy, on that planet--or SHEPPARD will not have a place to return
to
> | >> 48,000 years into the future ("In the year forty eight thousand /
One man
> | >> is
> | >> still alive / Looking for a brand new day / Ain't letting nothin
stand in
> | >> his way-" erm, ahem, but I digress).
> | >
> | > You're forgetting something...
> | > We know the stargate universe is based on the quantum divergent
timeline
> | > model. Every action creates at least two universes where each
possible
> | > outcome plays out.
> | >
> | > So, no. The future isn't written yet, or rather, we haven't chosen
the
> | > path
> | > OUR future will take. But all possible futures are already mapped
out. So,
> | > no, O'Niell doesn't have to go to the stargate in 2010 to send
himself a
> | > message because an alternate version of himself has already done so.
In
> | > that
> | > reality, the baddies won, but he successfully spawned a new universe
in
> | > which the warning was received and heeded.
> | >
> |
> | It's one thing to risk one's life or the life of your friends if you
know
> | once you change history the current timeline will wink out of
existence and
> | everyone who died will come back to life. It's another thing to risk
one's
> | life to change history if you don't actually get to experience the
benefits
> | of that change. I wonder how much effort they would put into changing
the
> | past to prevent a horrible present if they knew they would continue to
live
> | in that horrible present with the benefits going to (yet to be
created)
> | alternate versions of themselves.
>
> I think that there is always going to be enough doubt to make it worth a
try,
> especially if the cir***stances are dire. They know that they don't
really
> understand time travel. The operation of the quantum mirror precludes a
Many
> Worlds interpretation and argues strongly against any kind of infinite
> branching model in their multiverse.
Well there certainly are many worlds, we've seen 20 Carters in one scene
- and if 20 why not infinite.
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