Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Stuff
JD-
Let me get this straight. It’s perfectly fine that some student back in the 90s used a pocket sized time machine to take extra classes, but my suggestion of using that same device to binge watch every episode of a Netflix series at the same time is “a wasteful use for such a priceless artifact.”
you would need as many screens as there were episodes though
This is one of the many reasons why multiverse time travel is better than Nabokov-consistent time travel.
I’m guessing you mean “Novikov-consistent time travel,” and I feel bad reblogging to make a pedantic correction like that but I wanted to say that now I’m curious what “Nabokov-consistent time travel” would be
Your copy of the time machine construction manual was transcribed (“faithfully”, according to the foreword) by an acquaintance of the inventor. 40 pages in and you have already spotted at least 10 scribal errors, and partway through a complex technical passage the manual broke off into a 2500-word interlude about an insufferable middle-aged couple near the editor’s house.
Upon completing the machine, it takes you to a past that is entirely subjective, distorted as it is by your own biases and justifications. Upon describing the experience to a friend, your narrative is similarly skewed: you do not realise this, but it becomes immediately clear to the listener.
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