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Evan Prodromou

· Föderation EN So 09.02.2025 19:53:25

@mcc @nazokiyoubinbou subjective experience of time is so tricksy, I think it would be quite possible to modify the experience of time passing.

Evan Prodromou

Föderation EN So 09.02.2025 19:58:04

@mcc @nazokiyoubinbou when we talk about time going forward or backwards, or at different speeds, you have to ask, relative to WHAT? and the only real answer is our own subjective experience. If the entire universe went forward in time twice as fast as "normal", there would be no way to tell. Nobody would know.

Evan Prodromou

Föderation EN So 09.02.2025 19:58:27

@mcc @nazokiyoubinbou tl;dr "time travel" is just the word we use for the universe changing out of sync with our own personal experience of time. Of those two things, it's much easier to change our subjective experience than to change the entire fucking universe. So, "time travel" is best effected by changing how you experience time.

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Föderation · So 09.02.2025 19:59:42

@evan Nah. I expect the universe to change for me. @mcc @nazokiyoubinbou

Evan Prodromou

Föderation EN So 09.02.2025 20:04:59

@adiz @mcc @nazokiyoubinbou it's a perspective shift, whether you are changing who you are, or changing the universe.

Evan Prodromou

Föderation EN So 09.02.2025 20:03:31

@mcc @nazokiyoubinbou I think you could do this with time travel into the past, too. Or, at least, time travel from the future to the present. If the person you will be in 2040 were to travel back to 2025, and were to inhabit your body, what would they think and feel? Let those thoughts and feelings take you over, and guide your actions. (You need to remember to do this on the other side, in 2040, but only for a moment.)

mcc

Föderation EN So 09.02.2025 20:05:13

@evan @nazokiyoubinbou This would be absurdly useful for me but since I didn't think ahead of time to do this in 1997 or 2011 it is less helpful

Evan Prodromou

Föderation EN So 09.02.2025 20:37:22

@mcc @nazokiyoubinbou it's never too late to time travel from the future to your present self.

Evan Prodromou

Föderation EN So 09.02.2025 20:39:19

@mcc @nazokiyoubinbou also, are you sure you won't have traveled back from 2026 to 1997? Memory is a tricky thing. Maybe you did, and just forgot. Or maybe you were just zoned out and didn't notice it.

ideaPDish

Föderation EN So 09.02.2025 20:41:05

@evan @mcc @nazokiyoubinbou

Been there, done that...
grew into the teashirt

Nazo

Föderation EN So 09.02.2025 20:05:14

@evan @mcc Ok, but what about instead of forward or backwards at specific rates it's just completely randomized. Since we're getting all timey wimey here.

When you wake up in the morning is it tomorrow or yesterday or ten years ago or in the negative universe 10000 years from now? Who knows!