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To Change The Past

To Change The Past

Postby archenland_knight » December 17th, 2008, 11:18 pm

Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
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Re: To Change The Past

Postby moogdroog » December 17th, 2008, 11:32 pm

I think time-travel is fine, as long as your name is Marty McFly.
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Re: To Change The Past

Postby Karen » December 18th, 2008, 2:05 am

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Re: To Change The Past

Postby Tumnus's Books » December 18th, 2008, 2:42 am

I like Douglas Adam's portrayal of parallel universes in Mostly Harmless. I also like the thought of Boothe as a time traveler. Where can I buy that novel?
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Re: To Change The Past

Postby Tumnus's Books » December 18th, 2008, 2:46 am

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Re: To Change The Past

Postby JRosemary » December 18th, 2008, 3:33 am

As a devoted Star Trek fan, of course I instinctively believe in parallel universes and alternate timelines. (And heck, why shouldn't the multiverse be much more complicated than we usually like to admit?)

But if that be the case...and given an infinite number of parallel universes/alternate timelines...well, it may be that there really isn't any such thing as random chance or even decision-making, per se. That is, anything that can happen has happened in one reality or another. Any decision you could have made you have made in one reality or another. In other words, maybe history plays out every way it possibly can--and the coin you flip lands on both heads and tails every time. Does that thought make anyone else stop and stare? :snow-shocked:
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Re: To Change The Past

Postby archenland_knight » December 18th, 2008, 6:03 pm

Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
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Re: To Change The Past

Postby john » December 18th, 2008, 6:08 pm

Two words: Prime Directive
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Re: To Change The Past

Postby moogdroog » December 18th, 2008, 6:45 pm

The tv show Sliders worked on that premise. The Sliders went to different parallel universes that were created/maintained at the point of a choice or random event.

I thought these days current theories in physics were pointing towards the non-existence of time as an empirically observed construct rather than the 'multiple universe' theory, but I could be wrong.
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Re: To Change The Past

Postby Karen » December 18th, 2008, 7:30 pm

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Re: To Change The Past

Postby Lioba » December 18th, 2008, 7:45 pm

Iustitia est ad alterum.
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Re: To Change The Past

Postby Karen » December 18th, 2008, 7:52 pm

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Re: To Change The Past

Postby archenland_knight » December 18th, 2008, 8:01 pm

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