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	Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended)
	Posted By: SiliconDream =PN=	Date: 12/15/01 3:40 p.m.
	In Response To: Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended) (Mark Levin) : I have no objection to everything else you wrote, but this part once again : begs the question of what the Marine's jumps look like to outside : observers. One wonders why Tycho and Durandal do not act surprised at : either a sudden change in the Marine's inventory (if they can see it) or : the sudden appearance of the Marine in an unexpected place. A possible : explanation would be a fairly major change of assumptions, but it could be : mostly integrated into what we know: The Marine is not always traveling : between universes, but sometimes looking across, letting his : consciousness follow the Marines in other universes who were already : there. His inventory would then become that of the other guy (explaining : the jump to Rise Robot Rise). However, this is loses consistency with the : trip through Electric Sheeps 1 and 2 (inventory preserved). As I see it, it's only the Marine's mind that's traveling, so a jump isn't even noticeable to an outside observer, unless they can look into his head and see his old mental state get over-written. If he can be physically rewritten during a teleport, then you just see him rematerialize with different health and items than when he dematerialized. But in both cases where the Marine jumps mid-teleport, he rematerializes on a ship which is not controlled by his current boss, so it's not suprising that they don't notice his inventory change, any more than they notice every time he picks up some extra ammo. Seems to me that my mind-jump model and your consciousness-following model are more or less equivalent. There's a Marine in every timeline...it's just a question of which self your mind is currently occupying and when. : (BTW, if anyone is wondering why my Volunteers posts are sometimes : contradictory, it's because I was making it up as I went along and usually : only trying to stay consistent with all previous levels, usually not those : that had not yet been reached :\) I think people are still in the "haze of awed wonder" phase when considering your posts. Criticism will come in a month or two. ;-) --SiliconDream --SiliconDream

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Replies:

	Time Travel revisited (no pun intended)	SiliconDream =PN=	12/15/01 3:34 a.m.
	Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended)	Mark Levin	12/15/01 4:04 a.m.
	Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended)	SiliconDream =PN=	12/15/01 3:40 p.m.
	Quantum Time Travel	Hippieman [B.Org]	12/15/01 4:48 p.m.
	Re: Quantum Time Travel	Steve Levinson	12/18/01 5:23 a.m.
	Re: Quantum Time Travel	SiliconDream =PN=	12/18/01 8:54 a.m.
	Re: Quantum Time Travel	Steve Levinson	12/18/01 12:49 p.m.
	Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended)	Tru7h	12/15/01 4:40 a.m.
	Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended)	SiliconDream =PN=	12/15/01 3:45 p.m.
	Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended)	archon	12/15/01 8:33 a.m.
	Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended)	Steve Levinson	12/15/01 12:54 p.m.
	Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended)	[Tycho?]	12/15/01 1:28 p.m.
	Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended)	Steve Levinson	12/15/01 2:47 p.m.
	Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended)	SiliconDream =PN=	12/15/01 4:05 p.m.
	Re: Time Travel revisited (no pun intended)	Steve Levinson	12/16/01 11:09 a.m.
	Oops	Steve Levinson	12/15/01 1:01 p.m.
	Re: Oops	Jeff Nosanov	12/16/01 9:23 a.m.
	Re: Oops	Steve Levinson	12/16/01 10:42 a.m.
	Re: Oops	Grail	12/29/01 1:34 p.m.

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