Explore how, exactly? I mean, I'm familiar with the concept from various sources. I tend to dislike the idea of temporal inertia, though, because to me it feels more like mysticism than science.
I have been wondering about simultaneous causes--if, instead of having a history change result in certain uncaused phenomenon (which don't bother me because they still have cross-temporal causes in the perpendicular temporal dimension), they could actually be replaced with a new looped cause. Very precise conditions would have to apply however--for example, the Kyle Reese in The Terminator can't be the same as the Kyle Reese in "Dungeons and Dragons," because they have different dates for Judgment Day. Someone coming back from multiple futures at once would either a) have to have exactly identical life histories, or b) never so much of think of the portions of hir life history which diverge, so those portions can remain in the state of Schrodinger's cat. I'm not a human being could ever be capable of it--maybe a thing could, or a memory-wiped Terminator.
I've been thinking recently about the possibility of oscillating universes, too, where Timeline A is changed into Timeline B and then back again and so on. Then independent changes could be produced so there's still "forward" (cross-temporal) motion, such that A creates B creates A-prime creates B-prime creates A-double-prime creates. That could be used to explain why certain future phenomena reoccur.
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Date: 2010-01-12 01:14 pm (UTC)I have been wondering about simultaneous causes--if, instead of having a history change result in certain uncaused phenomenon (which don't bother me because they still have cross-temporal causes in the perpendicular temporal dimension), they could actually be replaced with a new looped cause. Very precise conditions would have to apply however--for example, the Kyle Reese in The Terminator can't be the same as the Kyle Reese in "Dungeons and Dragons," because they have different dates for Judgment Day. Someone coming back from multiple futures at once would either a) have to have exactly identical life histories, or b) never so much of think of the portions of hir life history which diverge, so those portions can remain in the state of Schrodinger's cat. I'm not a human being could ever be capable of it--maybe a thing could, or a memory-wiped Terminator.
I've been thinking recently about the possibility of oscillating universes, too, where Timeline A is changed into Timeline B and then back again and so on. Then independent changes could be produced so there's still "forward" (cross-temporal) motion, such that A creates B creates A-prime creates B-prime creates A-double-prime creates. That could be used to explain why certain future phenomena reoccur.