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Old 05-26-2009, 08:56 PM  
gideongallery
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Gideongallery:
You impress me, sir. Have you ever seen "Primer"? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/) one of the smartest sci-fi time travel movies ever made.


Everyone else: There's a very simple way to imagine time travel and a way to allow movies to tell their stories: Multiple Universes.

Arny did not change history when he first materialized back in 1984 in the first Terminator movie. By beating up and stealing the clothes from the punks and killing MULTIPLE Sarah Connors, he created an alternate universe. In HIS universe, none of these things happened. Skynet was born and destroyed the world. In the new universe, Skynet was still born, but in a different way and maybe by different people.

In Back to the Future, Marty goes back in time. The moment he hits 1 of the 2 pine trees, he creates an alternative universe where "Twin Pines Mall" was named "Loan Pine Mall". Etc.

The multiple Universe idea is a plausible idea accepted by most of today's Einsteins as Gideon already mentioned, AND, it makes the whole causality paradox thing moot.
back to the future is based on a 10d world, it is possible to change the present by changing the past

terminator 1 is based on 4d world, it is not possible to change the present by changing the past.

forcing a 10d world onto a story that was designed to based on a 4d world cause the crappy story of t2 (temporal paradox) and needs the even crappier fix (t3).
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