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DR in perspective? theory
morriswalters:
My math days are over. It's a visualization aid, no more or less.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on September 03, 2021, 02:27:59 PM ---My math days are over. It's a visualization aid, no more or less.
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You are not alone, you will notice other than the bit about the meaning of "12" verses "13" I haven't said much on the matter.. I did read the bit in Cold Days when Bob was trying explain using cinematic visual aids, Merlin in the guise of Gandalf to Harry, Alfred's explanation as to how the prison was formed in all it's dimensions, the only "visual" I get in my head is a star on top of a Christmas tree and I know that cannot be right.. The other take away is it cannot be an accident that the shape Merlin is making over and over again at the same time in four or more dimensions is a pentacle and that is what Harry wears around his neck. Just a WAG, but there has got to be a connection there beyond what Harry as always said, a symbol of magic/faith.
morriswalters:
It really doesn't matter how he proposes to do the mechanics of time travel, He's said he is going to do it. But he isn't going to do it in any time frame that means anything to me. So for my personal finish I borrowed from Heinlein.
Heinlein did time travel in a book called The Door Into Summer. The title is about a cat that makes his owner go to every door in a house to be let out in the winter, looking for a door into summer. Heinlein evidently wanted to avoid the bootstrap paradox where cause and effect just get thrown out.
He has his protagonist go into the future in cold sleep only to discover that he has been screwed over and lost everything. He then goes to the past to set up the outcome he wants in the future and then goes into cold sleep again to get back to the future. Everything that that he went back to set up was there when he woke the first time, but he had to get back to make sure it happened.
This is one of the thousand or so time travel stories I've read and I imagined how the story might end using this device if Jim ever got there. There's token support for the idea in Cold Days. There is a one possible time travel device for going into the past introduced in Changes. However this shouldn't be dignified as even a WAG.
From the book A Door Into Summer
--- Quote ---Philosophically, just one line of ink can make a different universe as surely as having the continent of Europe missing. Is the old “branching time streams” and “multiple universes” notion correct? Did I bounce into a different universe, different because I had monkeyed with the setup? Even though I found Ricky and Pete in it? Is there another universe somewhere (or somewhen) in which Pete yowled until he despaired, then wandered off to fend for himself, deserted? And in which Ricky never managed to flee with her grandmother but had to suffer the vindictive wrath of Belle?
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Mira:
Or in the manner of the Time Lord Himself, DR Who, he travels through time, space, other planets, and dimensions as well in his TARDIS. There are rules he cannot break, and there are rules he severely bends..
The_Sibelis:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 03, 2021, 08:32:38 PM ---
Or in the manner of the Time Lord Himself, DR Who, he travels through time, space, other planets, and dimensions as well in his TARDIS. There are rules he cannot break, and there are rules he severely bends..
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can you elaborate on those rules and how he bends which of them? I've never had the pleasure to get into Dr Who properly.
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