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[timemachine]

your thoughts on time travel and alternate worldlines/timelines: GO!

bonus points. what are your experiences with them, if you've had any, and what are your favorite time travel theories?

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[timemachine]

it is a mess and has a potential for a boatload of paradoxes. however, i can see how meeting your future employees could help solidify your career path.

it must have been important they meet you to ensure you took the path you did. however, at some point you must have chosen that career path on a whim at some point on your own. so you must have deemed it important that you make sure that all iterations of you in time take the same path for one reason or another.

then again i don't know, these are all theories i'm spouting since i'm still thinking in the mindset that the flow of time is linear. perhaps it's not as linear as we believe it to be.

[whitehairedprettyboy]

Sound logic, but it seems I must correct a misconception. I did not instruct them to look for me in the past or to give me this information; they did so of their own volition, because they are imbeciles who couldn't find their way out of a paper bag without my help, let alone out of the last century.

While I hesitate to ask for elaboration on your theories, lest my current time-travel-related headache become worse, I do find myself morbidly curious. What are your alternatives to time as linear?

[timemachine]

there’s a theory that involves time travel where space and time swap. time doesn’t move for you but everything else does. that’s how time travel works... in theory. currently time flows like a river because we have no way to override that which means for us as we experience time it is linear. but for others it’s not. at least for those who claim to jump between alternate universes.

it’s still difficult to explain because at the end of the day time moves forward even for those that travel through time. we can’t stop ourselves from growing old, unless you can make it so your consciousness just travels.

sorry if this is much. its probably just mumbo jumbo to you and most of it is still theory to me. though some I’ve proven.

[whitehairedprettyboy]

...As I feared, my headache's worse.

[ Sorry, Kurisu. He tried, but his way of thinking is ultimately fairly mundane, and this is all just a little too much for him right now. ]

Dare I ask why you've posed this question in the first place? If you're planning to undertake some time travel yourself while here, well, better you than me, I suppose.

[timemachine]

it’s just been a long time since I’ve discussed the topic with someone. I guess you could say I wanted to find out what others thought.

[whitehairedprettyboy]

Well, I do apologize for my lack of direct knowledge on the subject. I hope your conversations with others prove fruitful.

[ He doesn't actually care, tbh, he just came into this post to vent in the first place. Time travel, man. It's messed up. ]

[timemachine]

i don't really expect people to know much. it's considered a taboo topic in the scientific community. honestly, i didn't even really expect many people to answer but this place is weird enough that i figured i might have gotten a hit or two.

so i appreciate what you could tell me and your experience.

[whitehairedprettyboy]

Scientific, is it? I would have expected all this to fall under the umbrella of magic - supernatural nonsense generally does, where I'm from.

And you're welcome.

[ His insight was super valuable and necessary, after all. ]

[timemachine]

normally it would, but it's been proven to work via scientific theories, so there's no need to refute it saying it's just fantasy.

[whitehairedprettyboy]

Oh, I think you misunderstand me. There's nothing "just fantasy" about magic in my world. It's very real; I speak from experience.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure what places it outside the realm of science, other than presumably breaking most of the laws of physics. But I'm told the two don't mix very well.