Time Machines: a small yet critical detail

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• grafician0

  lol nothing in the Math says time is linear...

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  • so you don't actually go "back" in time, just a different timeline of "now" in a waygrafician
  • also there is no concept of "you" you're just matter, you're moving matter if you refer to your actual bodygrafician
  • "time" as we refer to it usually is tied to the 2nd law of thermodynamicsgrafician
  • I don't understand the math. Help me out. If time isn't linear, what is it? Doesn't that break cause and effect? I drop the ball, ball falls to the ground.cherub
  • well the physics work the same if the universe goes forward or backwardgrafician
  • @cherub what are u describing is the 2nd law, entropy increasedgrafician
  • we might never solve time travel as we are part of the space-time, thus we are in the systemgrafician
  • Entropy is confusing. One the one hand they're talking about an object's energy being "spent", and the other is talking about all the possible configurations ofcherub
  • a system.cherub
  • then let me give you a real mind bender: you have undo in Procreate with you draw, but not irl with pen in paper - same Universe, different rules?grafician
  • also irl you can play ping pong and the ball comes back, but you can't put back a bulletgrafician
  • in a gun after it fired...grafician
  • Same with us, you grow old, but Benjamin Button grows younger defeating entropy? lolgrafician
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  • It seems like the undo button should exist IRL too, now that you put it like that.cherub
  • If undo button did exist we would fight about whether to undo only locally, or system wide(undo the whole universe by 5 minutes). Think of the most unpleasantcherub
  • thing you've ever experienced. Would you want to re-live that again?cherub

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