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>,
xxxh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Pete B) writes:
| 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.
A Many Worlds interpretation does not allow for interactions between
realities.
You can try to hand-wave something that is like Many Worlds but does allow
such interactions (it might be harder than you expect) but the fact that
the
quantum mirror lets "you" go back to "your" reality (even after you turn
it
off!) argues against infinite branching.
Dan Lanciani
ddl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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