Fifth-dimensional travel
1. You start working on a time machine. 30 years later, you build the time machine. All this time, you have been traveling through the third dimension quite naturally, but also through a fourth, temporal dimension in the same year-by-year fashion as everyone else.
2. Now in this schema, the past can be changed. You make a notebook of all the work you did building the time machine. Then, you go back in time with the notebook. When you travel back in time, you instantaneously travel through the fourth, temporal dimension a great "distance."
3. In the past, you find your past self and give yourself the notebook. Then you wander off and get drunk for the rest of your life on some remote island, changing nothing else.
4. Your past self begins work on the time machine. Only now, your past self has some incredible help, via the notebook. This version of you builds the time machine in only five years. The thing is, this time-traveling instance of yourself did not think of all the things it takes to have time travel. Some of the things came from the notebook. Also, this version does not write a new notebook, but just uses the same notebook. The notebook is now a bootstrap paradox -- you never write the notebook, but simply have it.
5. This you takes the notebook and goes back in time five years, and gives his younger self the notebook. Only this time, as he hands the notebook to his younger self, he makes a tic mark inside the back cover. He tells his younger self, when you hand off this notebook again, make another tic mark and tell your younger self to make yet another tic mark when he hands off the notebook again.
6. These instances of you keep traveling through the fourth dimension, handing off the notebook and filling the inside back cover with tic marks.
7. The notebook accumulates tic marks. At some point, the notebook has 20 tic marks. The notebook is now 100 years old. Some version of you receives the notebook with 20 tic marks in it.
But where is the you that saw a notebook with only four tic marks in it? Is that you in another universe? Or did that you just get overwritten?
The notebook is traveling through the fifth dimension.
You're minding your own business, and a future you appears and hands you a notebook with 100 tic marks. Or maybe 16 tic marks. Or maybe 37. This has all happened before.
Time Travel
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Re: Time Travel
[passing a really long blunt with a bunch of tic marks on the side to my past self] yeah dog
Re: Time Travel
lolJuri wrote:[passing a really long blunt with a bunch of tic marks on the side to my past self] yeah dog
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Re: Time Travel
This, but monotonically increasing autobuttstuffDoug wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:09 am Fifth-dimensional travel
1. You start working on a time machine. 30 years later, you build the time machine. All this time, you have been traveling through the third dimension quite naturally, but also through a fourth, temporal dimension in the same year-by-year fashion as everyone else.
2. Now in this schema, the past can be changed. You make a notebook of all the work you did building the time machine. Then, you go back in time with the notebook. When you travel back in time, you instantaneously travel through the fourth, temporal dimension a great "distance."
3. In the past, you find your past self and give yourself the notebook. Then you wander off and get drunk for the rest of your life on some remote island, changing nothing else.
4. Your past self begins work on the time machine. Only now, your past self has some incredible help, via the notebook. This version of you builds the time machine in only five years. The thing is, this time-traveling instance of yourself did not think of all the things it takes to have time travel. Some of the things came from the notebook. Also, this version does not write a new notebook, but just uses the same notebook. The notebook is now a bootstrap paradox -- you never write the notebook, but simply have it.
5. This you takes the notebook and goes back in time five years, and gives his younger self the notebook. Only this time, as he hands the notebook to his younger self, he makes a tic mark inside the back cover. He tells his younger self, when you hand off this notebook again, make another tic mark and tell your younger self to make yet another tic mark when he hands off the notebook again.
6. These instances of you keep traveling through the fourth dimension, handing off the notebook and filling the inside back cover with tic marks.
7. The notebook accumulates tic marks. At some point, the notebook has 20 tic marks. The notebook is now 100 years old. Some version of you receives the notebook with 20 tic marks in it.
But where is the you that saw a notebook with only four tic marks in it? Is that you in another universe? Or did that you just get overwritten?
The notebook is traveling through the fifth dimension.
You're minding your own business, and a future you appears and hands you a notebook with 100 tic marks. Or maybe 16 tic marks. Or maybe 37. This has all happened before.