alvin

asks

ever wonder why many movies say it's a bad idea to go back in time and change your life? something to ponder

30 responses to this plurk

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 12:05PM

  HighDef™

  says

  it's thought that since it'll change the flow of events from that point, the unintended consequences could be catastropic.

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 12:05PM

  leonniefm

  says

  coz they think it's gonna change the history & they think it's bad if the history changed.

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 12:07PM

  HighDef™

  ... catastrophic.

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 12:09PM

  WoLF-[x]

  says

  that's the old days of time travel anyway. Nowadays we think in quantum physics where you jump time and dimensions. Time is not linear.

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 12:45PM

  alvin

  asks

  what's the difference though? weather prediction is nonlinear too (there's no formula for perfect prediction) but the initial condition

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 12:47PM

  alvin

  asks

  greatly affects the final outcome.

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 02:28PM

  WoLF-[x]

  says

  haha...i dunno bout weather prediction. But the other way of time travel is you jump to ANOTHER dimension. So the time you left behind is

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 02:27PM

  WoLF-[x]

  says

  still running in parallel to the one you just jumped to. You can never meet the "you" in the new time jump because you will simply take

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 02:28PM

  WoLF-[x]

  says

  his place. Its a really huge thing to conceptualise because every decision you make leads to another "what if" dimension. So you just travel

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 02:30PM

  WoLF-[x]

  says

  back in time to an alternate decision that was made or before the branching in time space continuum blablballa. I just talking sci fi crap.

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 02:58PM

  Moggs

  doesn't want to ever go back. Each thing you do teaches you something new about yourself and others and helps make you who you are.

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 02:59PM

  Moggs

  would be a whole different person if she could keep going back and redoing.

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 03:01PM

  WoLF-[x]

  says

  *recommends alvin to watch The Girl Who Leapt Through Time*

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 03:07PM

  射手座の新★

  seconds, triples, and quadruples wolfx's suggestion

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 05:41PM

  amix	the way i understood butterfly effect wasn't time travel, but insanity

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 05:56PM

  jaclyn87

  says

  i thought it was about no matter how many times we get to redo something, something else could always go wrong

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 08:37PM

  Nethead

  says

  i enjoy going back in time on plurk and seeing if that can change time in the present

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 08:42PM

  Moggs

  recommends also 'Run Lola Run', 'Go', 'Memento' and just because- Freeway it's so wrong, it's right.

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  Aug 19, 2008 - 09:40PM

  Telperion

  *head spinning*

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  Aug 20, 2008 - 01:32AM

  huinee

  says

  if you *really* want your head to spin, i recommend watching Primer

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  Aug 20, 2008 - 01:33AM

  Telperion

  says

  woah...that looks cool

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  Aug 20, 2008 - 01:34AM

  alvin

  says

  yeah, but you have to watch it a couple times though

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  Aug 20, 2008 - 01:38AM

  huinee

  says

  yeah! alvin, ryanlim and i watched it 3 freaking times on the same night trying to understand wtf happened in the movie

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  Aug 20, 2008 - 09:12AM

  Moggs

  takes out her notepad (the old fashioned paper kind) and writes 'primer - must watch'.

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  Aug 20, 2008 - 12:33PM

  almostcool

  says

  Primer is awesome

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  Aug 20, 2008 - 12:43PM

  射手座の新★

  says

  kivs primer...

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  Aug 20, 2008 - 01:57PM

  spiderkitten

  thinks

  it's because the scripts get too hard to write *steps on some ants*

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  Aug 21, 2008 - 12:22AM

  aBihas

  says

  i wouldn't choose to (unless i ccould go bck multiple times to try fix, screw up and make it back how it was the first time) cuz i believe

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  Aug 21, 2008 - 12:23AM

  aBihas

  says

  everything happens for a reason and going back in time to change 1 little thing you never know. it might change ure whole life that came af

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  Aug 21, 2008 - 12:21AM

  aBihas

  says

  after