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Omni-ones Front Porch
Posted Nov 19, 2003
Just sit your self down on the swinging sofa and help your salf to the food and drinks I will be back in a little bit
O...Have a chat to anyone around.
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The Paradox's
Posted Nov 15, 2003
The "NO - NO's" of Temporal work
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The Paradox's
Posted Nov 15, 2003
The Grandfather Paradox:
One of the most well-known temporal paradoxes, it occurs when one travels into the past and kills their own ancestor. Effectively, the individual committing the murder eliminated himself before he even existed. Once his grandfather died, the murderer was not born, and therefore could not commit the murder in the first place.
The Predestination Paradox :
Simply stated, this is the theory of "Effect before Cause." It is the inverse of the Grandfather Paradox. It suggests that an individual could travel into the past and cause an event which would eventually cause that person to travel back in time. This theory can get confusing when one considers that if one does not perform the cause, they create an entirely different timeline.
The Oscillation Theory:
In this extension of the grandfather paradox, time somehow "loops" between two inherently different realities. Reality "reverts" from a possibly unstable timeline, for instance: the fact that the grandfather was killed by a person who does not exist. This instability causes an "oscillation" between the two (or more) timelines.
Causality Loop:
A state in which an individual continually repeats the same series of actions into infinity. Most causality loops are caused by the Predestination Paradox, where the Event 2 causes Event 1 in the past, which in turn causes Event 2
The Doubling Theory:
Based on Dr. Richard Feynman's "sum over histories" theory, it states that for each event, every possible effect that can occur, does occur. Therefore, any "change" in the timeline is merely a shift between alternate realities.
The Butterfly Effect:
The idea that a small change at one point can have a great effect on a distant point. This concept is especially important for a person who is in the past, where he could, in theory, alter the timeline through his very presence in that time.
Advanced Concepts
Anti-Time:
Anti-time "travels" in a direction opposite to normal time. In essence, as viewed from our timeline, an object existing in an anti-time continuum would be "growing younger." When time and anti-time collide, for example inside certain types of subspace distortions, they annihilate each other and can have significant effects on the fabric of space as well.
The Dali Paradox:
Also referred to as the Melting Clock Effect. An effect in which a temporal anomaly causes distortions in the local space-time continuum which cause time to slow to a gradual halt.
The Poga Paradox:
A situation that occurs when an attempt to prevent a certain event in the past ends up causing that same event. This theory is an extension of the Predestination Paradox
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Temporal Mechanics 1
Posted Nov 15, 2003
The study of time, its processes, and consequences of its change. It is an enormously complex subject because of the infinite interrelationships between each object in a temporal continuum.
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