The QUICK question thread.....

cokeonspecialtwodollars said:
Depends on your school of thought, perhaps future you coming back has already been factored in to the timeline and is a part of the chain of events.
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But how will this negate the expansive decision tree that opens up from changing the course of action upon receiving he advice of future poodle?

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cokeonspecialtwodollars said:
The argument is that future Poodle travelled back in time only because he (you) remembered that it happened thus it's all just part of a single timeline from your perspective, the decision has already been made.
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But the continuum that sent me back has been disrupted...
 
pink poodle said:
But the continuum that sent me back has been disrupted...
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Time is linear from your perspective. In this scenario you have been given advice by future Poodle and then you make a decision based on this advice, the outcome of the decision that you make is what leads to upcoming event anyway so ultimately you still become future Poodle and you travel back to give sage advice to past Poodle, after the advice has been given you travel off to wherever and thus your timeline continues.
 
cokeonspecialtwodollars said:
Time is linear from your perspective. In this scenario you have been given advice by future Poodle and then you make a decision based on this advice, the outcome of the decision that you make is what leads to upcoming event anyway so ultimately you still become future Poodle and you travel back to give sage advice to past Poodle, after the advice has been given you travel off to wherever and thus your timeline continues.
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Ok...I'm going to need some mushrooms.
 
I think the thing that most time travellers seem to forget is that you need to be able to travel through space as well as time, if for example you wanted to go back and see the extinction event that took out the dinosaurs some 65 Million years ago you need to factor in that this happened part way across the galaxy relative to our current position.

Here's a cool little animation to demonstrate this point
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1192525169161461760
 
What if you ran out of fuel while trying to travel back that far? Are you stick out of time? Or will you materialise in the time+space that the fuel drops?
 
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