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Actually, I think I did understand.
Posted By: MrHenDate: 12/15/06 4:32 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Branching (Forrest of B.org)

: The distinction I was making was between how someone with omniscient
: knowledge of the multiverse might model it if they were to draw a graph of
: the flow of time, versus how someone in the universe would experience it
: in full 3D as they travelled time. I mean "branching" in the
: sense of literally splitting off and branching, as would be drawn on the
: graph that an omniscient person would draw. But of course for someone
: time-travelling, it would *seem* like the old timeline had been
: "overwritten" both because you can only experience one timeline
: at once (the one you're currently in), and because you can't get back to a
: previously-visited timeline via time travel alone. (It would require some
: other sort of ability than merely moving forward and backward in time;
: you'd need to be able to move "sideways" too). From a normal
: perspective in 3D space with time "flowing" around you as usual,
: you can only see one timeline, and previously-visited ones are as
: "gone" as the past of a normal linear timeline is. But we don't
: really think that the present overwrote the past... we've just moved past
: the past, and can't get back to it.

Right. I am talking about the perspective of the traveler, not the time-god. Your comment about moving "sideways" is how I see branching. Unless you can travel to another branch it is not branching. If there is ever a branch that is unaccessible, it is not branching.

Graphing things from the time-god's perspective will always need some sort of "branch", sure, but I find this terminology pointless. It always has to branch, and the timelines themselves are not branching. The only thing that branches is the cause-effect chain as written on a piece of paper. The branch is literally nothing more than a measurement of the change.

My branching has nothing to do with change and has everything to do with temporal positioning in relation to the infinite number of timelines available.

: So now I guess I'm curious the other way around; when you thought you had
: understood what I meant by branching in some way other than the above,
: what did you think I was saying?

What I initially thought you meant was the ability to visit other timelines and return to the original timeline. In other words, timelines can never override each other and all possible timelines exist and can be entered and exited.

: (on a related note, the recent Sci-Fi Channel miniseries "The Lost
: Room" seems to imply something like the whole thing about seeing
: multiple timelines at once, and how it relates to the Jjaro and
: W'rkncacnter and insanity in general; someone manages to open up a
: "hole in reality" which seems to have some sort of horrific
: psychological effects on those in proximity to the hole).

I saw some ads for it and it and the idea intrigued me. However, after seeing Deja Vu in theaters, I have lost faith in time-manipulation stories. I still claim that Primer was the only one that did it well.

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     *sniff* Duality *sniff *NM*treellama 11/30/06 2:51 a.m.
     That's not fair.RyokoTK 11/30/06 5:26 a.m.
           Re: That's not fair.McNutcase 11/30/06 5:40 a.m.
                 Re: That's not fair.RyokoTK 11/30/06 8:51 a.m.
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           So, what was your conclusion? *NM*Frungi 11/30/06 3:57 p.m.
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           Re: Official Bungie Canon?Bob-B-Q 12/7/06 10:14 a.m.
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                 Re: Official Bungie Canon?Shoeless 12/11/06 12:00 p.m.
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                                   uh, thanks...MrHen 12/11/06 6:01 p.m.
                             Re: Official Bungie Canon?Forrest of B.org 12/11/06 9:44 p.m.
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                                                           Mmm... trippy...MrHen 12/13/06 8:20 a.m.
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                       Re: Official Bungie Canon?Chris Biberstein 12/12/06 12:37 p.m.
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                                   Re: Official Bungie Canon?Chris Biberstein 12/12/06 4:43 p.m.
                                         Re: Official Bungie Canon?Forrest of B.org 12/12/06 9:52 p.m.
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                                                                                         questions and answersMrHen 12/22/06 12:44 p.m.
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                                         rabbit trail, sorry...MrHen 12/13/06 5:23 a.m.
                                               Re: rabbit trail, sorry...Chris Biberstein 12/13/06 4:29 p.m.
                                                     and the problem was... where?MrHen 12/13/06 7:06 p.m.
                                                           Re: and the problem was... where?Forrest of B.org 12/13/06 9:13 p.m.
                                                                 ah, my bad. I understand. :) *NM*MrHen 12/14/06 4:54 a.m.
                                                                       Re: ah, my bad. I understand. :)Forrest of B.org 12/14/06 1:22 p.m.
                                                                             I am the same way. ;)MrHen 12/15/06 5:18 a.m.
                                                                                   Re: I am the same way. ;)Forrest of B.org 12/15/06 7:27 a.m.
                                                                                         BranchingMrHen 12/15/06 9:46 a.m.
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                                                                                                     Actually, I think I did understand.MrHen 12/15/06 4:32 p.m.
                                                                                                           Re: Actually, I think I did understand.Forrest of B.org 12/17/06 11:55 a.m.
                                                                                                                 Oh, okay, then we do disagree.MrHen 12/17/06 6:50 p.m.
                                                                                                                       Re: Oh, okay, then we do disagree.Forrest of B.org 12/17/06 10:08 p.m.
                                                                                                                             so where do you get hyper-time?MrHen 12/18/06 5:13 a.m.
                                                                                                                                   Re: so where do you get hyper-time?Forrest of B.org 12/18/06 8:20 a.m.
                                                                                                                                         whoops... no... that is not what I meant.MrHen 12/18/06 9:49 a.m.
                                                                                                                                               Re: whoops... no... that is not what I meant.Forrest of B.org 12/18/06 1:58 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                     right, yeah, that is the identity problemMrHen 12/18/06 4:41 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                           Re: right, yeah, that is the identity problemForrest of B.org 12/18/06 9:55 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                 ohhh...MrHen 12/19/06 5:44 a.m.
                                                                                                                                                                       Re: ohhh...Forrest of B.org 12/19/06 9:20 a.m.
                                                                                                                                                                             back to the math ;)MrHen 12/19/06 11:07 a.m.
                                                                                                                                                                                   Re: back to the math ;)Forrest of B.org 12/19/06 1:36 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                                         wait, so my model is too... real? ;)MrHen 12/22/06 1:57 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                                               Sort of.Forrest of B.org 12/22/06 3:22 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                                                     and the light turns on...MrHen 1/7/07 4:41 p.m.
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Re: and the light turns on...Forrest of B.org 1/8/07 8:12 p.m.
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                                                     Re: Official Bungie Canon?Shoeless 12/14/06 8:01 a.m.
                                                     Re: Official Bungie Canon?Frungi 12/15/06 8:02 a.m.
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                                                                 hehe, InfinityMrHen 12/15/06 9:51 a.m.
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                                                                                               Re: hehe, InfinityForrest of B.org 12/15/06 3:15 p.m.
                                                                                                     Re: hehe, Infinitytreellama 12/15/06 4:12 p.m.
                                                                                                           Re: hehe, InfinityFrungi 12/15/06 6:34 p.m.
                                                                                                                 Re: hehe, Infinitytreellama 12/16/06 3:38 a.m.
                                                                                                                       So... do I have this right?MrHen 12/16/06 6:35 a.m.
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                                                           Re: Official Bungie Canon?McNutcase 12/15/06 9:32 a.m.
                                                                 Re: Official Bungie Canon?MrHen 12/15/06 9:49 a.m.
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                                                                       Re: Official Bungie Canon?McNutcase 12/15/06 11:09 a.m.
                                                                       Re: Official Bungie Canon?Forrest of B.org 12/15/06 1:34 p.m.
                                                                             Re: Official Bungie Canon?Forrest of B.org 12/15/06 1:39 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Official Bungie Canon?ukimalefu 12/15/06 6:29 p.m.
                                                                       Re: Official Bungie Canon?McNutcase 12/15/06 10:23 p.m.
                                                                       awesome, thanks! *NM*MrHen 12/16/06 6:49 a.m.
                                                           Re: Official Bungie Canon?Chris Biberstein 12/16/06 5:51 p.m.
                                                                 Re: Official Bungie Canon?kyjel 12/16/06 7:08 p.m.
                                                                       Re: Official Bungie Canon?Chris Biberstein 12/18/06 8:36 p.m.
                                                                             Re: Official Bungie Canon?Frungi 12/18/06 9:48 p.m.
                                                                                   Re: Official Bungie Canon?Chris Biberstein 12/22/06 10:00 a.m.
                                                                                         Re: Official Bungie Canon?Forrest of B.org 12/22/06 10:19 a.m.
                                                                                         what he saidMrHen 12/22/06 12:38 p.m.
                                                                             Re: Official Bungie Canon?Shoeless 12/18/06 10:23 p.m.
                                                                 *sigh*MrHen 12/17/06 5:08 a.m.
                 Re: Official Bungie Canon?Frungi 12/11/06 3:35 p.m.
                       Re: Official Bungie Canon?Chris Biberstein 12/12/06 12:23 p.m.
                             Re: Official Bungie Canon?Shoeless 12/13/06 7:56 a.m.
                                   Re: Official Bungie Canon?Forrest of B.org 12/13/06 8:32 a.m.
                                         another example (albeit overused)MrHen 12/13/06 8:57 a.m.
     Re: The Garden of Forking Paths *LINK*irons 2/23/18 1:11 a.m.
           LOKE *NM*W'rkncacnter 2/23/18 4:06 p.m.
                 Re: LOKE *NM* *LINK*irons 2/23/18 4:14 p.m.
                       LOKE *NM* *NM* *NM* *NM* *NM* *LINK*W'rkncacnter 2/23/18 11:09 p.m.
                             Re: LOKE *NM* *LINK*irons 2/24/18 3:31 a.m.

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