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Posted By: MrHen | Date: 12/22/06 1:57 p.m. | |
In Response To: Re: back to the math ;) (Forrest of B.org) : Leci n'est pas une grandpapa.
I laughed. :) : Ok. So would you say, then, that there is some time in the past, some other
In a more simple sense, I can "see" or perceive my ancestor in my past, yes. : I don't think it's absurd for the same four-dimensional object to exist twice
Presumably it would need to move specially as well. Or push things out of the way when it traveled back along the t-axis. : This is why I think identification metaphysics are silly (by which I don't
Right. Which is why most of the time-travel movies I see annoy me. There is a paradox of sorts, but the paradox has to do with us, not Rock and Rock'. : There's a four-dimensional object (or if you
I do like. :) : Which one is "really" the rock? Both; they're
Sure, given that the 4D object is really our mental construction. If the rock is the simplest thing in the universe, than it would not be the same, literal rock. We would see them as the same rock, but there is no 4D identity. The identity is casual, not literal.
In shorter terms: if the rock is the most simple thing in the universe, it will no longer be the same rock when it moves. If the rock is not the most simple thing in the universe, than the identity of the rock is a perception and it just becomes a word game.
But I understand what you are saying, I think you got my point, so moving on.
: If we watched time play forward
Yeah, that makes sense.
: in fact,
Hm. Interesting. I really know nothing about physics. I just took math and philosophy. One of these days I will go find a good book to teach me the basics. Or I could keep talking to you. :)
So what happens to the positron?
: Does the rock exist in two places at the same time? Sure, why not; my arm
Right. That is how I see it.
: I was using change in two different senses, hence the one in quotes. Sorry
Oh. Okay.
: I'm not denying that change occurs; I'm just saying that the concept of
Right, that is exactly what I am saying. The difference is that you can now show something moving along the axis. I consider the question to have been answered. The math gets messy, but that is because we are always moving all over the place.
Between that and how I see the relative and global positions, it makes sense to me. Do I have something messed up?
: That's pretty much what I was trying to say.
Oh. Good. :)
: We have all the data because we exist in 3D space; we can see outside the 2D
But the data does not necessitate 3D space. The 2D comic does not imply a 3D space. Just because we use three dimensions to view the data does not mean that it has to be that way. If you wanted, you can show each individual page next to each other on one giant page and then dictate the path.
It makes it easier for us to see things in 3D space because the comic is 3D: two space, one temporal.
The data of a comic book does not provide a proof of 3D space. I see our world the same way: the data contained in 4D space does not necessitate a hyper-time. Hyper-time makes it easier for the time-god to see it, but you could show all of the data in 4D. It just gets annoying trying to do so.
But we have the ability. We can plot 4D space-time in 3D space.
: That's about all I mean. To say that the past exists is to say that
Mmkay. That makes sense.
: [snip]
: This whole scenario is possible in my model as well; and the problem about
Sense all that needs to occur to avoid a collision is any difference in any dimension, all the time-traveler would have to do is find a way to avoid things. If every point in space is "full" at a given "time", just push your way through. Yeah, it messes with everything, but it is possible. We have to do the same thing to move around in space as it is: we are always pushing everything around.
The only real problem is the amount of objects in a given space-time "slice" would theoretically change. But even this is not really a problem. At least, not that I can see.
: I think this flipbook analogy works really well. There can be things that
Ohh, okay, that makes sense. Another light-bulb went on.
That, of course, is the problem of trying to invent time-travel. I have to take an assumption and pretend there is a way to change one's velocity in time. If that assumption is denied, my model of time-travel would break. So... is there a problem with that assumption (other than it being an assumption)?
The way I look at it, one would have to explain how to travel through hyper-time anyway. And once in hyper-time, one would still have to travel along the temporal axis. So I do not see how hyper-time solves this problem. Would it not make it worse?
: But, you could also have the story tell a loop; where the page after the last
Well, yeah, but I think that is lame. It really does not solve anything anyway, and I really have trouble considering that time-travel. If you cannot plot the movement, it is not movement.
: You could also have a story where Bob goes along from pages 1 to 50 and then
Sure. Hence your hyper-time.
: But you'll note that all of this invokes some sort of "magical"
Right. Which is why time-travel is still a sub-genre of science fiction and not a field of science.
I, however, am not talking about such a magical jump. I am talking about a fictional way of reversing one's flow through time. It is just another fictional assumption, but I think it makes more sense in relation to the way that this world works.
: You seem to be talking just about
Assuming that the only way for backward causation to occur, sure.
I think part of the problem may be the difference between the time-loop scenario and the model I am describing.
In the time-loop model there is nothing more than one real system of events and these events are self-causing and require a magical jump.
In my model (again, I am not taking credit for this, I assume that someone else out there thought of it first), the backwards causation can be traced but due to the way that it will actually change everything there is no "old" time. Everything will change. The only evidence for it would be in the minds of those doing the changing or some time-god who knows everything. Since the time-god is hypothetical, it cannot be used in a proof of hyper-time. All of the data can be plotted without a problem, but it could not be seen by analyzing the current state of space-time.
It would look like a time-loop, but that is only because everything changed. There was no magical "jump", there was a magical "change in temporal velocity". There is a big difference.
In my mental exercises, I kept everything intact by maintaining cause and effect chains that could be shown as a series of events. They required a time-stamp of sorts, which was achieved by using the time-traveler's relative temporal position which was nothing more than how long the traveler had been experiencing things. In other words, age.
Since there was this temporal register, I could construct a self-contained, fictional universe that was easily displayed in two bogus dimensions: the universe and relative time. Each point graphed was a "state of the universe", which was the data of every point in space-time, and the graph showed the changes in the universe over relative time. The data of all that happened during the travels was now available. Comparing two points would show exactly what changed between them as caused by the domino effect started by the traveler.
(In truth, the "universe" dimension is nothing more than shorthand for all of 4D space-time. It is a heck of a lot data, and since I have no interest in exactly what changed, I just think of it as a state.)
Once all of the data was known, I could look at the very end of the graph where the traveler ceased traveling and look at the state of the universe. That ending state would be the current state of the universe.
The traveler would no longer be traveling through time mucking about with the universe and things would go on changing like they once did.
Taking a snapshot of the universe, the time-god would only see the final state unless there was a hyper-time. Hyper-time could be used to show all of the changes, but it is not necessary.
To return to the comic book example, the data of the comic book does not imply that our 4D world exists. Our 4D world does not imply that the world of the time-god exists. Yeah, it makes things easier to understand, but it can be explained without it.
One could see my relative time as a sort of fifth dimension, but it is nothing more than a controlled subset of events from 4D space-time. Since we have a unique identity that has a unique perception of the universe, we can plot things from that perspective.
The big problem with this is finding such an identity. Since the identity changes, it is sort of hard to use it to show the changes in everything else. Hence, my identity problem. So... yeah.
: So I think that's maybe where we got off track. From what I can tell what
Well, yeah, but that where I take some artistic freedom. Assuming that some old, cooky scientist accidentally discovers something that can alter its temporal velocity, my model works. (I think.)
I find that less of a jump than a magic temporal teleporter.
: Where I was going with multiple timelines and such was just the
Oh. Okay. Well, yeah, in that case I agree with you. If you are using a magic time-jumper, the results must be hyper-time or time-loops. And the latter is just playing with people's assumptions about causality and identity.
: But you can't magically teleport into the past. So the whole question is
Well, I can't yet. ;)
Again, all of my thoughts on this are quirky. I sort of have this feeling that there is some obvious thing I am missing...
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The Garden of Forking Paths | Document | 11/29/06 8:50 p.m. | |
Re: The Garden of Forking Paths | Forrest of B.org | 11/29/06 10:11 p.m. | |
*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. | |
Re: That's not fair. | McNutcase | 11/30/06 9:25 a.m. | |
Re: That's not fair. | RyokoTK | 11/30/06 9:59 a.m. | |
Re: That's not fair. | D-M.A. | 11/30/06 10:05 a.m. | |
Re: That's not fair. | RyokoTK | 11/30/06 10:22 a.m. | |
Ahaa, I see what you mean now, point taken. *NM* | D-M.A. | 11/30/06 10:33 a.m. | |
define "well" | MrHen | 11/30/06 10:24 a.m. | |
Re: define "well" | RyokoTK | 11/30/06 11:31 a.m. | |
Re: define "well" | Aaron Sikes | 11/30/06 12:19 p.m. | |
Re: define "well" | Forrest of B.org | 11/30/06 1:26 p.m. | |
Re: define "well" | Aaron Sikes | 12/1/06 6:01 a.m. | |
Mmm... House of Leaves | MrHen | 11/30/06 8:00 a.m. | |
Re: The Garden of Forking Paths | Vid Boi | 11/30/06 8:13 a.m. | |
Re: The Garden of Forking Paths | sdwoodchuck | 11/30/06 12:39 p.m. | |
So, what was your conclusion? *NM* | Frungi | 11/30/06 3:57 p.m. | |
Re: So, what was your conclusion? | sdwoodchuck | 11/30/06 6:18 p.m. | |
in your theory, the dreams... | MrHen | 12/1/06 4:44 a.m. | |
Re: in your theory, the dreams... | thermoplyae | 12/1/06 6:42 a.m. | |
Re: So, what was your conclusion? | Frungi | 12/4/06 6:31 p.m. | |
Re: So, what was your conclusion? | Forrest of B.org | 12/4/06 9:07 p.m. | |
Time Travel and the Psychology of Gods | Forrest of B.org | 12/4/06 9:25 p.m. | |
Re: Time Travel and the Psychology of Gods | Frungi | 12/5/06 8:46 a.m. | |
Re: Time Travel and the Psychology of Gods | Forrest of B.org | 12/5/06 4:29 p.m. | |
heck, I would buy 'em | MrHen | 12/5/06 6:39 p.m. | |
Philosophy anyone? | Icarus | 12/6/06 8:29 a.m. | |
Re: Philosophy anyone? | Forrest of B.org | 12/6/06 10:46 a.m. | |
Re: The Garden of Forking Paths *LINK* | Hamish Sinclair | 12/2/06 5:06 a.m. | |
Re: The Garden of Forking Paths | Document | 12/2/06 6:17 p.m. | |
Re: The Garden of Forking Paths | Document | 12/4/06 7:03 p.m. | |
Official Bungie Canon? | Shoeless | 12/7/06 7:00 a.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Bob-B-Q | 12/7/06 10:14 a.m. | |
Define "all" | MrHen | 12/7/06 10:20 a.m. | |
Re: Define "all" | Document | 12/7/06 4:20 p.m. | |
Re: Define "all" | Document | 12/7/06 4:21 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Chris Biberstein | 12/11/06 10:28 a.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Shoeless | 12/11/06 12:00 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Forrest of B.org | 12/11/06 12:03 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | MrHen | 12/11/06 1:45 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? *LINK* | Frungi | 12/11/06 3:22 p.m. | |
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. | |
I like being confused... | MrHen | 12/12/06 5:13 a.m. | |
Re: I like being confused... | Forrest of B.org | 12/12/06 3:53 p.m. | |
Re: I like being confused... | Frungi | 12/12/06 5:51 p.m. | |
Re: I like being confused... | Forrest of B.org | 12/12/06 9:42 p.m. | |
timelines and their glory | MrHen | 12/13/06 5:14 a.m. | |
Re: timelines and their glory | Forrest of B.org | 12/13/06 8:05 a.m. | |
Mmm... trippy... | MrHen | 12/13/06 8:20 a.m. | |
Re: timelines and their glory | Frungi | 12/13/06 1:43 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Chris Biberstein | 12/12/06 12:37 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Forrest of B.org | 12/12/06 4:02 p.m. | |
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. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Chris Biberstein | 12/13/06 4:17 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Forrest of B.org | 12/13/06 6:06 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Chris Biberstein | 12/16/06 5:42 p.m. | |
what? why? | MrHen | 12/16/06 5:47 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | kyjel | 12/16/06 6:40 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Shoeless | 12/17/06 4:13 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Frungi | 12/18/06 5:09 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Chris Biberstein | 12/18/06 8:47 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Frungi | 12/18/06 9:22 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Chris Biberstein | 12/22/06 9:58 a.m. | |
questions and answers | MrHen | 12/22/06 12:44 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Shoeless | 12/22/06 1:24 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Shoeless | 12/18/06 10:21 p.m. | |
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. | |
Branching | MrHen | 12/15/06 9:46 a.m. | |
Re: Branching | Forrest of B.org | 12/15/06 11:04 a.m. | |
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 problem | MrHen | 12/18/06 4:41 p.m. | |
Re: right, yeah, that is the identity problem | Forrest 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. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Shoeless | 12/13/06 8:11 a.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Chris Biberstein | 12/13/06 4:34 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Shoeless | 12/14/06 8:01 a.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Frungi | 12/15/06 8:02 a.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Forrest of B.org | 12/15/06 8:51 a.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Frungi | 12/15/06 9:22 a.m. | |
hehe, Infinity | MrHen | 12/15/06 9:51 a.m. | |
Re: hehe, Infinity | Forrest of B.org | 12/15/06 11:16 a.m. | |
Re: hehe, Infinity | treellama | 12/15/06 12:18 p.m. | |
Re: hehe, Infinity | Forrest of B.org | 12/15/06 1:15 p.m. | |
Re: hehe, Infinity | treellama | 12/15/06 2:09 p.m. | |
Re: hehe, Infinity | Forrest of B.org | 12/15/06 3:15 p.m. | |
Re: hehe, Infinity | treellama | 12/15/06 4:12 p.m. | |
Re: hehe, Infinity | Frungi | 12/15/06 6:34 p.m. | |
Re: hehe, Infinity | treellama | 12/16/06 3:38 a.m. | |
So... do I have this right? | MrHen | 12/16/06 6:35 a.m. | |
Re: So... do I have this right? | treellama | 12/16/06 11:25 a.m. | |
Re: hehe, Infinity | treellama | 12/15/06 2:21 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | treellama | 12/15/06 9:55 a.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | McNutcase | 12/15/06 11:12 a.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | Forrest of B.org | 12/15/06 1:20 p.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | McNutcase | 12/15/06 9:32 a.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | MrHen | 12/15/06 9:49 a.m. | |
Re: Official Bungie Canon? | treellama | 12/15/06 9:56 a.m. | |
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 said | MrHen | 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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