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| Apr 29, 2017 at 11:41 | comment | added | Greenstone Walker | In a universe where time travel is possible, "If something artificial exists, there must be a creator" need not hold. | |
| Apr 29, 2017 at 8:27 | answer | added | Mikasa | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 2:57 | answer | added | user55777 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 0:34 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | (BTW, I mean it's the 'same idea' in the sense of an alternate timeline which people from the timeline of TOS can travel to, not in the sense that the Mirror Universe was created by a time traveler causing its history to diverge, as there is no evidence the divergence had anything to do with time travel) | |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 0:24 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | @SS-3.1415926535897932384626433 - I think you are misunderstanding the branching timeline model I am describing (which is a common one used in many different sci fi works)--the events of TOS would take place in a separate timeline from the new timeline created by the arrival of Nero in the past, the two timelines would be like parallel universes after the moment of Nero's arrival, so the events of TOS would occur in the 23rd century of the first timeline but not in the new timeline. I assume you're familiar with the "Mirror Universe" episodes? Same idea. | |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 0:18 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | @Hypnosifl Do you mean to say that new timeline of Star Trek (2009) should show events of TOS too? Two kirks, Three Spocks.. | |
| Nov 13, 2015 at 22:54 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | @SS-3.1415926535897932384626433 - I think you are using these terms in some non-standard way--in a multiverse context, different "timelines" ordinarily refer to different parallel histories (see the intro to the alternate history wiki article which speaks of ('voyaging into the past or into the future that results in history splitting into two or more timelines'), whereas a world line is a physics term referring to the history a single object traces out through spacetime. What do you mean by them? | |
| Nov 13, 2015 at 11:55 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | @Hypnosifl You are talking about World Line, not Timeline. | |
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| Nov 12, 2015 at 22:11 | comment | added | Ixrec | This is more a question of philosophy than anything else. Some consider these paradoxes to be a convincing argument that backwards time travel is logically impossible. Others think it's fine as long as the past doesn't get changed, and everything forms a closed time loop. Within the Doctor Who universe, the answer to why this sort of thing is possible is probably "Why not?" | |
| Nov 12, 2015 at 21:17 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | Why do you think that seeing yourself means there aren't multiple timelines? The way multiple timelines often work in fiction is that if you start in timeline A and jump back in time to some date, you end up in a timeline B that was identical to timeline A right up until that date, and then diverged with your arrival. So if I travel to 12 noon on some date, then at 3 pm I decide to jump back to 1 pm, I will end up in a timeline identical to the one I just came from up until 1 pm--and that would include the fact that I had appeared at 12 pm and was still around at 1. | |
| Nov 12, 2015 at 17:59 | answer | added | KutuluMike | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 12, 2015 at 17:57 | comment | added | Mr Lister | There have been many instances of multiple time lines. Pyramids of Mars springs to mind, where Sarah reasons Earth is OK in the future, since they just came from there, but the Doctor demonstrates to her it won't, by going to the future again and showing what it will look like if they don't solve the problem at hand first! | |
| Nov 12, 2015 at 17:31 | comment | added | Roger | "Time can be rewritten." | |
| Nov 12, 2015 at 17:28 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | “So, all events in Doctor Who happen in the same timeline.” Oh, ho ho ho ho ho. | |
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| Nov 12, 2015 at 17:06 | answer | added | tilley31 | timeline score: 8 | |
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| Nov 12, 2015 at 17:01 | comment | added | razethestray | Not sure there can be an answer, that's why it is a paradox | |
| Nov 12, 2015 at 16:59 | history | asked | Doctor Doom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |