Timeline for In Primer, how do you physically get in the box?
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| May 3, 2023 at 21:09 | history | edited | DavidW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 5, 2017 at 12:46 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | It is theorized that if you refuse to enter at the "end" of the loop, you sicken and die, as per Thomas Granger, but it's never proven, and might have just been the result of too long in the box without food or oxygen. | |
| Jul 5, 2017 at 12:37 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | One of the ways in which Primer remains self consistent with the time travel is that, when someone exits the time machine that had been turned on, that is now the timeline. Before they enter the box, it's empty, as seen in how they can disassemble the box and take it with them. | |
| Jul 5, 2017 at 3:22 | comment | added | SciFan | To pose my question another way, suppose the box was transparent. What would someone standing in the room see as someone entered the box? Before entry, they should see both the double traveling backwards (i.e., in reverse motion) and the original preparing to enter. What would they see the double doing as the original entered the box? Presumably, entering the box in "reverse", but at some point both the double and the original cease to exist. In the diagram, this corresponds to how there are three simultaneous stretches (i.e., copies of the traveler) between A and B, but only one after B. | |
| Jul 5, 2017 at 3:16 | comment | added | SciFan | I gather that the double exits when the machine is turned on, but the double must vanish (not exit, but rather cease to exist in that timeline) after (in external time) the original enters the box. That is, if you opened the box between 9am and 5pm, you would find the double inside, but if you did so after 5pm, the box would be empty, no? That is my question -- the moment that the double vanishes cannot occur earlier than the original's entry to the box. Since it is impossible to enter a box instantaneously, what would the person entering see/feel? | |
| Jul 5, 2017 at 1:39 | history | answered | FuzzyBoots | CC BY-SA 3.0 |