Of course I am. Which step of the Fermi paradox is humanity on earth actually at, if it's really a thing? Which of those steps is where other life must actually break down or stop being able to exist? We don't know. We never found out.
Maybe we can go back to trying to answer that question when I revive everyone. But there's the imminent threat of everyone just being petrified again, so I gotta solve "where did this come from and why" before I just go waking everyone up. I only wanna do that one time, not repeatedly. Being petrified over and over is a pain in the ass.
[ He should know! He's done it a couple times. ]
Yeah, spot on. Ten billion points to you. General relativity doesn't allow for it. Some sort of difference in how spacetime is shaped or formed would have to happen for us to travel back in time.
Though there's Hugh Everett's many worlds interpretation, which goes back to something you brought up earlier, right? What's the difference between time travel and universe travel? Could just be semantic. We don't know, since neither one is "possible."
[ You can hear the air quotes here. ]
If a "time" traveller really just arrived in a parallel universe, then they didn't technically travel back in time.
This is all me spouting bullshit based on shaky quantum physics, though. I know what it sounds like. It's a little psuedo-science. But a lot of modern science sounded like sci-fi before someone proved it.
Basically, I don't have the real answer. Alien tech seems more likely, but…is it? Dunno! It's exciting to think about!
[ And you can hear the exclamation point there, too. ]
This whole situation is exciting to think about! It's a shame there's almost no one back home actually awake that could appreciate the whole multiverse thing.
Either way, the endgame here is the same.
Figure this stupid ass island thing out. Get everyone back where they came from without accidentally nuking us all in some wormhole or…whatever.
Then for me, solve the answer of where the petrification tech came from and revive the rest of humanity.
me trying so hard to understand wild ass quantum physics after 10 mins on wikipedia
Maybe we can go back to trying to answer that question when I revive everyone. But there's the imminent threat of everyone just being petrified again, so I gotta solve "where did this come from and why" before I just go waking everyone up. I only wanna do that one time, not repeatedly. Being petrified over and over is a pain in the ass.
[ He should know! He's done it a couple times. ]
Yeah, spot on. Ten billion points to you. General relativity doesn't allow for it. Some sort of difference in how spacetime is shaped or formed would have to happen for us to travel back in time.
Though there's Hugh Everett's many worlds interpretation, which goes back to something you brought up earlier, right? What's the difference between time travel and universe travel? Could just be semantic. We don't know, since neither one is "possible."
[ You can hear the air quotes here. ]
If a "time" traveller really just arrived in a parallel universe, then they didn't technically travel back in time.
This is all me spouting bullshit based on shaky quantum physics, though. I know what it sounds like. It's a little psuedo-science. But a lot of modern science sounded like sci-fi before someone proved it.
Basically, I don't have the real answer. Alien tech seems more likely, but…is it? Dunno! It's exciting to think about!
[ And you can hear the exclamation point there, too. ]
This whole situation is exciting to think about! It's a shame there's almost no one back home actually awake that could appreciate the whole multiverse thing.
Either way, the endgame here is the same.
Figure this stupid ass island thing out. Get everyone back where they came from without accidentally nuking us all in some wormhole or…whatever.
Then for me, solve the answer of where the petrification tech came from and revive the rest of humanity.
[ He makes it sounds so easy. ]