saw déjà vu last night. didn’t read anything about it. went with some mates, collected our tix and sat with a litre of diet coke each. wasn’t expecting it to have a sci-fi slant. was thinking that it was supposed to have more of a paranormal edge to it. tony scott directed pulak tu. enjoyed it actually. it’s been a million years since i’ve been to the cineplex.
ok, i lied. i saw night at the museum last saturday. but prior to that, it’s been yonks. pirates of the caribbean 2 was the last one, methinks. and i pay ten quid a month for my cineworld unlimited card. i guess that’s my excuse for the recent muat turuns of wayang yang baru keluar DVD. hahaha. malas nak keluar rumah.
on the drive back home, one of my friends was asking what would’ve happen the moment one travels back in time. which made me kinda think.
say, you want to change the past at a certain point in time, which i shall call B. get that girl of your dreams from the clutches of that wanker from hell. study harder for that exam. whatever lah. so, at point C, you go back to point A. do whatever it takes to make a difference at point B. the outcome will then be different, as seen here:
so, at point B, you get the girl. you passed that exam. as you’ve made things change, i’m gonna call it point B1. so, by the time you reach point C, it’ll be different as well (getting hitched / that new job). like before, i’m gonna call it point C1.
what gets me, though, what happens to the universe the moment you left at point C. does it cease to exist? especially when you’ve made a difference at point B to create a new timeline. if anything after C exists, it’d mean there would be an infinite number of parralel timelines.
that’s not the only problem. by then, you’d realise why the hell you’d go back in time to sort your own self out. as there would now be two of you at point A onwards. which poses the next question, what would happen if you do meet your own self. a disruption of the space-time continuum of cataclysmic proportions?
i think i really need some sleep…
[the last time i dabbled in anything related to physics was in sixth form. apa lagi of the theoretical variety. okay, going to sleep now.]
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after almost three years of writing on this blog, i finally found out how to say ‘stomach of chaos’ in nihon-go. arigato gozaimasu, norzu-kun!
on another note, congratulations to nasubi for completing final fantasy XII. damn, man!
I assume that when you travel from point C back to point A, there is no ‘other’ you; what travels is not your physical being, but your knowledge of the future. Therefore back at point A, you are still you – there is still one you, but you now know what in the future you wished you knew then. As you reach point C – again – which can be denoted as C1, C automatically becomes the alternate / parallel universe: the other sliding door, if you will – the world that would exist, had you not taken the other road at point B.
Hehehe.
Read Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe or just watch the documentary Part 2. String’s The Thing at http://alflamont.blogspot.com/2006/12/google-treasure-trove.html
“Our physical space is observed to have only four large dimensions, and a physical theory must take this into account, but nothing prevents a theory from involving more than 4 dimensions, per se. In the case of string theory, consistency requires spacetime to have 10, 11 or 26 dimensions. The conflict between observation and theory is resolved by making the unobserved dimensions compact dimensions.”
Kudz,
have you seen Sliding Doors?
christmas holiday just passed might be my most productive movie watching period ever; happy feet, eragon, casino royale, night at the museum, and pre-release mr bean’s holiday.
on the mr bean’s holiday, the first scene of the movie wasn’t there yet. so, the organiser told us what it supposed to be, i.e. it was raining and mr bean stood on this pavement, looking at a travel agent’s window… an advert for holiday in cannes. the movie then started with the 2nd scene, i.e. shot of a thundering eurostar coming out of the channel tunnel.
it was an invitation-only preview to a targeted audience, and we had to fill up a 2-page detail questionaires after the movie. to be honest, takde la best sangat (to me lah) but the kids suka apparently. the invitation is for 1 adult to accompany 2 kids. kids below 12 kena isi simple form je, just a page of simple questions. for adult, panjang la sikit soalan2nya and very details. i guess, the editor will look and make amendments from these responses.
i’ll put deja vu on my next list then….
psss… kat mana tempat yg paling elok utk muat-turun latest?
thanks, dude! it was a blast playing, n i know u definitely will enjoy it. nak tau ending tak? hahahaha.
you’re welcome. one nasi lemak for me! 😉
You won’t meet yourself — parallel lines never meet (unless Stephen Hawking’s said something about it).
Hmm… would you retain the memory of the self/life you left if you do this time travel palaver?