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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 7 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

the reason we don't have time travelers is that the past is no more concrete than the future. [Current science disagrees with the idea that] just like there are infinite potential futures, there are an infinity of potential pasts that could have evolved into the present [instead insisting that the entire past is fully embedded in the present]. [It's not supported by any current theories that] the probability of reaching a particular past is essentially zero.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Looks like somebody has read Anathem.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 points 11 hours ago

Every word Neal Stephenson ever wrote is fucking classic

Except The Big U , that was tripe

[–] Juice@midwest.social 4 points 14 hours ago

I vehemently disagree with many worlds theory. I think its a total mindfuck. However I do think that the future influences the present and the past.