Time Travel

[sharana.geo <sharana.geo@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49005

Laurasia wrote...   a lot. :-)
But to abbreviate what she wrote (I'll just jump to the conclusion):

> What I've tried to demonstrate was that whilst there can never be
> a difference in the overall outcome of the events (it would create
> a paradox and negate all human existence), time only happened
> once, you can't change the past, but you had a choice in it at the
> time-whether you were on one side of the lake, or the other.

I'll try to explain in my own words, the conclusion I came up to, 
that made me accept Theory 3...Oy...Here goes...

The way the characters interact suggests that wizards believe in the 
cause-effect law. This means that the outcome of an event depends on 
the choices you make. Most importantly, that the cause will always 
precede the effect.  (Which is the point of view I had that stopped 
me in accepting Theory 3, and all the examples I put as to why I 
didn't understand it). They truly believe that they are going back 
in time, and that if they kill their younger self, they're screwed. 
So in no way they can allow themselves to be seen, they make up laws 
to prevent wizards screwing up timelines, and so on.

But the truth is that cause not necessarily precedes the effect. I'm 
sorry I'm not sure how to explain myself here. It's like when 
scientists believed that Earth was flat and that if you reached the 
border, you would fall off. Scientists wrote physic laws that helped 
them explain life based on this fact, but they got it wrong (of 
course this example would be fairly easy to detect because there 
where events that couldn't be explained, but it took hundreds of 
years for them to accept that the world is round, even though some 
scientists tried to prove that on the way).

Wizards believe in a physic law about Time Travel that isn't the 
correct one. The correct one is that magic (or whatever you wish to 
call it), allows you to experience the consequences before the 
causes. But once the consequence happens, magic forces the curse of 
events in the timeline to remain constant so that there is no way to 
avoid the cause of that consequence. There is no way that you 
experience the consequence and that while you arrive to the point in 
time where the cause occurs; you can change events to avoid the 
cause from occurring. So the TT is the means to ensure that the 
cause will happen after the effect.
	
This is the real way that physics in magic occur (concerning what 
wizards call time travel), but the way wizards understand it is that 
first comes the cause and THEN comes the effect, and that they 
travel in time.

I think I rambled a bit, but I hope I made myself understood.

By the way, it seems that Theory 3 doesn't allow "jumps" into the 
future. So, how does Prof. Trelawney do it? I mean, she pictured 
herself going to the Christmas dinner, who is she to defy fate?. Oh, 
yeah, right, she has the gift of being in contact with her third 
eye. It's magic at its finest!! Wish I could develope my third eye 
like that!!

:-D



Sharana...