Re: ATTN: Max Blackrabbit
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, ShujinTribble <tribble_at_b...>
wrote:
> Rick Pikul wrote:
>
> > In concept, it is possible to have a natural child the same
age as
> > you, if you are willing to invoke time-travel.
> >
> > Witness the story _All You Zombies_, where a time traveller
meets a
> > woman, gets her knocked up, comes back nine months later to pick
up
> > their daughter so that she can be entered into the time academy,
grow
> > up, meet the time traveller, have their daughter, get a sex
change,
> > and go back in time to get the woman pregnant and collect their
> > daughter for the time academy.
>
> did you hear that? That was the sound of my brain shorting out.
> I HATE Temporal Mechanics!
>
Think of it as a mathematics problem. Assign each party a
variable. Let's say the original time-traveler is "a", the original
woman is "b", and the original daughter is "c".
In the original formula, "a" mates with "b" and produces "c".
Once "c" is born, "a" returns and claims "c". After training, "c"
becomes "b", and "a" mates with her. producing "c". After "c" is
born yet again, "b" becomes "a", returns to the past once more to
mate with "b" in order to produce "c".
In the original formula, "a + b =c". Yet, ultimately, "a = b =
c". All variables are essentially one and the same, the only
difference being their current place on the timeline (and their
respective reality origin), which affects their value. The
schematic could also be "a + a = a", "b + b = b" or "c + c = c", yet
because each original variable is altered by time, they no longer
retain their original values. The father is the mother is the
daughter. Such a situation would end up producing at least 3
different realities, because in each one, the party who is left
behind continues their life on a measured timeline. So in the first
problem, "b" continues existing in the current time, while "c"
and "a" step outside of time. "c" then grows up to become "b",
while the existence of "a" continues onward in the first sequence of
events (assuming that "a" stayed around to raise "c"). However,
if "a" stayed to raised "c", then "a" would be older, and therefore
continuing an existence in much the same way as the original "b".
Thusly, "a + b = c", "b(c) + a = c" and finally, "c(a) + b = c".
All the variables are the same, but they cannot coexist
simultaneously and still be able to affect the other timelines.
Since there cannot be multiple similar variables at the same time,
and with the same properties, there must therefore be numerous
realities, each one allowing the same variable to have a different
beginning and a different end, yet at the key moment in time (a + b
= c), they are all exactly alike, but existing separately.
Holy shit, I don't know whether I just made things more
complicated or less. In any case, "c" would have some serious
genetic defects resulting from severe inbreeding. By the time you
get to the third sample, "c" (or "a" in this case) may be little
more than a drooling idiot. And I think I just heard something pop
in my cerebellum...
--JMH
Received on Sat Apr 24 2004 - 23:05:04 CDT
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