"A leads to B leads to C leads to A...
"A is an explosion in the 29th century. Debris from Voyager's hull is found in evidence. I [Captain Braxton] go back in time to destroy you.
"B. You try to stop me, disabling my weapon which causes me to crash-land back here in the 20th century.
"C. Someone in this century steals my time-ship and launches it. They go to the future and once there, they make one critical mistake which cause a terrible explosion that takes us all the way back to A. There's an explosion in the 29th century - the cycle of causality is complete!"
-Captain Braxton (1996), Star Trek: Voyager
Have I lost you yet? Let's try another.
Have I lost you yet? Let's try another.
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wobbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff."
-The 10th Doctor, Doctor Who
And from someone who shares my mom's opinion:
And from someone who shares my mom's opinion:
"I hate temporal mechanics..."
-Miles O'Brien to his future self, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
That's probably the average person's reaction to time travel, come to think of it, but it's actually quite simple to a flexible mind. When my mom and I watch Doctor Who, my mom asks me so many questions, usually the same questions each time.
"Why can't the Doctor go back in his own time line?" (He might run into himself and say the wrong thing, or cause a paradox. Also, there are too many Doctors at the same time. It can't possibly go well.)
"How did the Doctor know to go there?" (Amy told him.)
"But she's stuck in the TARDIS." (Yeah, she tells him in the future.)
"How does that do him any good?" (After all this is over, the Doctor takes Amy a couple days into the past and leaves him a message. )
Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. I always try to explain everything, but it just seems that some people just can't 'get' time travel.
And there is all that stuff about paradoxes, methods for time travel, time travel in Star Trek, and the scientific possibility of time travel........ So much to discuss, so little time. And then there's the butterfly effect. More on that later.
"Why can't the Doctor go back in his own time line?" (He might run into himself and say the wrong thing, or cause a paradox. Also, there are too many Doctors at the same time. It can't possibly go well.)
"How did the Doctor know to go there?" (Amy told him.)
"But she's stuck in the TARDIS." (Yeah, she tells him in the future.)
"How does that do him any good?" (After all this is over, the Doctor takes Amy a couple days into the past and leaves him a message. )
Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. I always try to explain everything, but it just seems that some people just can't 'get' time travel.
And there is all that stuff about paradoxes, methods for time travel, time travel in Star Trek, and the scientific possibility of time travel........ So much to discuss, so little time. And then there's the butterfly effect. More on that later.
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