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>, ddl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <MPG.2243f756d41500ab98bc57@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
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.
Mine does. And I'm sure I'm not alone in that, so too bad ;)
> You can try to hand-wave something
All scifi is handwaveing.
> 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.
I attribute that to ... less than sterling writing ... more than
anything else.
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