Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for July 19, 2014
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July 20, 2014
Transcript:
Time machines don't make sense. Why not? Step in the machine, press a button, go to a different time. Suppose it works like that. What happens if you put one machine inside another and have the outer one go back while the inner one goes forward. You end up with two devices, one of which is supposed to be in the other. But which can't be because it's not at the same time. Stupid. Well, okay, what if the outer machine creates it's own internal time while it's traveling? Then, the inner machine only travels in internal time. Suppose you put a person in each of those machines. The outer person doesn't age while he goes back in time and the inner person doesn't age going forward. Then the inner one gets out. Now they're from different times and traveled different ways, but now share space, time, and age. If that's the HRKKG Dammit. They always have an aneurysm before I hit the really weird stuff.
Ida No over 10 years ago
Try putting one klein bottle inside another one.
Apocalypse Fanatic over 10 years ago
If a time machine travels in time while in another time traveling time machine, it will just no longer be in the second time machine. kind of like if it travels in time while not in a time machine, no longer be in a given place at a given time, it will just be gone in either case. I know you want to come up with ‘new’ time travel arguments, but at least work out the kinks.
Retired Dude over 10 years ago
I don’t have time for all this.
CogentModality over 10 years ago
Makes about as much sense as renting the ground floor space in a two story outhouse.
ziggman14304 over 10 years ago
But now she gets the insurance money because he died of natural causes. It’s murder by time travel theory, no way she’d be convicted.
ladamson1918 over 10 years ago
I want a time/space portal with preview function.
scyphi26 over 10 years ago
Oh pish-posh, she’s being deliberately problematic with time travel in a rather unreasonable ways. I mean really, who’d put a time machine inside a time machine and then use both in different ways at the same time?
No no, what she REALLY should’ve gotten talking about is the paradoxes that start arising the second you do any sort of time travel…THAT’S brain-aneurysm material.
sadiedog over 10 years ago
It can all be explained quite easily- time travel is wibbly-wobbly.
Ida No over 10 years ago
“who’d put a time machine inside a time machine and then use both in different ways at the same time?”The same people that put spotlights on spaceships traveling near the speed of light and then turn the spotlights on to see if that light goes faster than the speed of light.
denise.wolff over 10 years ago
Ask the Doctor.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member over 10 years ago
My question, why does she have to be angry and confrontational?