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<blockquote data-quote="Lucidus" data-source="post: 19269" data-attributes="member: 375"><p><strong>Re: Three Laws of Chronodynamics</strong></p><p></p><p>A chronodynamically correct version of The Time Machine.</p><p></p><p>Our story starts with a physicist who I will call Guy (Pierce). Guy is in love with Emma, at least I think that was her name. Anyway Guy decides to ask Emma to marry him, so he arranges to meet her at the park where he will propose and give her a ring. He goes to the park but Emma never shows up. Later he learns that she has died in an accident involving a carriage. The strange thing is that witnesses to the accident report having seen Guy there, but he knows for fact that he wasn't there.</p><p></p><p>Guy decides to use his knowledge of physics to create a time machine and save Emma. But he realizes that there is a delima here. He apparently caused Emma's death by interfering before because if his older self had not lead Emma away from the park she would not have been killed by the carriage. But he also reasons that there must have been some reason why his older self decided to time travel in the first place. He concludes that there must have been an original timeline in which Emma died in the park and that his older self was trying to save her. This is where he makes a classical time travel mistake. There is no "original" timeline or "altered" timeline, there is only the timeline as he remembers it.</p><p></p><p>He works for four years and finally creates a working time machine. He travels back in time to day that he was to meet Emma in the park. He meets Emma and excitedly leads her away from the park believing that he has saved her from some danger there. But he knows that he has not saved her from the carriage yet. Because his younger self was not present at the accident, he has no knowledge of how to avoid it but he figures that he can simply avoid all carriages. He puts Emma in a safe place and tells her stay there while he goes accross the street to purchase some flowers for her. Emma, unaware of any impending danger, wanders out onto the sidewalk and is struck and killed by a carriage.</p><p></p><p>Guy is devestated but has learned from his mistakes. He realizes that time travel is more complex than he thought, and decides to go to the future to learn more about chronodynamics before making another attempt to save Emma. He travels a couple of hundred years into the future and drops by the library. He fails to find any useful information.( Apparently, the NYC library doesn't have this thread archived. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite38" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />) He decides to go farther into in the future and is eventually knocked out by falling debris and ends up sometime around 800,000 years in the future.</p><p></p><p>Here he encounters a stone age culture called the Eloi. He also learns that the Eloi are just cattle for the more highly evolved Morlocks( I say more highly evolved because the Morlocks specialize, there are separate sub-species of hunters and administrators whereas the Eloi appear to be similar the humans of 800,000 years earlier.) He falls in love with one of the Eloi females. (Emma who?) Predictably enough, his new squeeze is harvested by the Morlocks and he goes to save her. He infiltrates the Morlocks' lair and meets the most intelligent character in the entire story, the uber-Morlock( who I'll call Morrie). Sadly, his new girlfriend is already part of the Morlock buffet.( In the hollywood version, she is held prisoner for breeding purposes. But this doesn't make any sense. If the Eloi and Morlocks are two separate species they would not be able to interbreed. If they did interbreed then after a few generations they would be phenotipically indistinguishable from each other.) Morrie apologizes for having Guy's girlfriend for lunch but offers Guy a lesson in chronodynamics as a peace offering.</p><p></p><p>Morrie explains to Guy the Three Laws of Chronodynamics and tells Guy that because there is no record of Guy ever returning to his own time, he will never return. Guy gets angry and threatens Morrie. Morrie then expains that he is the leader of the local Morlocks and warns that without him the hunter-Morlocks will quickly deplete the local Eloi population. </p><p></p><p>Guy foolishly attacks Morrie anyway. After a brief fight on the time machine Morrie is killed. Guy stops the time machine in the future and realizes that Morrie was right, the hunter-Morlocks have completely destroyed the Eloi and in desperation have started to feed on any and everything in the local area.</p><p></p><p>Guy decides to travel back in time once more to destroy the remaining Morlocks. ( totally ingoring everything Morrie has tried to teach him.) Guy decides to use the time machine as a weapon to destoy the Morlocks. He will lose the time machine but maybe he can kill the Morlocks. This is his biggest blunder yet. If Guy would think about the laws of chronodynamics, he would realize that sacrificing his time machine will not change the future that he has seen. But he foolishly proceeds and destroys his time machine and ,as far as he knows, all the Morlocks.</p><p></p><p>Guy lives with the Eloi for a number of years thinking that he has successfully eliminated the Morlocks. Occasionally Eloi go missing. No one knows if they simply got lost or injured or if the dreaded Morlocks are still out there. Eventually the Eloi's worst fears are realized, the Morlocks are back! And now without the uber-Morlock to direct them, they hunt the Eloi to extinction. One day, as Guy is captured by the Morlocks, he feels the pangs of regret for destroying his time machine and for not heeding Morrie's warning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucidus, post: 19269, member: 375"] [b]Re: Three Laws of Chronodynamics[/b] A chronodynamically correct version of The Time Machine. Our story starts with a physicist who I will call Guy (Pierce). Guy is in love with Emma, at least I think that was her name. Anyway Guy decides to ask Emma to marry him, so he arranges to meet her at the park where he will propose and give her a ring. He goes to the park but Emma never shows up. Later he learns that she has died in an accident involving a carriage. The strange thing is that witnesses to the accident report having seen Guy there, but he knows for fact that he wasn't there. Guy decides to use his knowledge of physics to create a time machine and save Emma. But he realizes that there is a delima here. He apparently caused Emma's death by interfering before because if his older self had not lead Emma away from the park she would not have been killed by the carriage. But he also reasons that there must have been some reason why his older self decided to time travel in the first place. He concludes that there must have been an original timeline in which Emma died in the park and that his older self was trying to save her. This is where he makes a classical time travel mistake. There is no "original" timeline or "altered" timeline, there is only the timeline as he remembers it. He works for four years and finally creates a working time machine. He travels back in time to day that he was to meet Emma in the park. He meets Emma and excitedly leads her away from the park believing that he has saved her from some danger there. But he knows that he has not saved her from the carriage yet. Because his younger self was not present at the accident, he has no knowledge of how to avoid it but he figures that he can simply avoid all carriages. He puts Emma in a safe place and tells her stay there while he goes accross the street to purchase some flowers for her. Emma, unaware of any impending danger, wanders out onto the sidewalk and is struck and killed by a carriage. Guy is devestated but has learned from his mistakes. He realizes that time travel is more complex than he thought, and decides to go to the future to learn more about chronodynamics before making another attempt to save Emma. He travels a couple of hundred years into the future and drops by the library. He fails to find any useful information.( Apparently, the NYC library doesn't have this thread archived. :)) He decides to go farther into in the future and is eventually knocked out by falling debris and ends up sometime around 800,000 years in the future. Here he encounters a stone age culture called the Eloi. He also learns that the Eloi are just cattle for the more highly evolved Morlocks( I say more highly evolved because the Morlocks specialize, there are separate sub-species of hunters and administrators whereas the Eloi appear to be similar the humans of 800,000 years earlier.) He falls in love with one of the Eloi females. (Emma who?) Predictably enough, his new squeeze is harvested by the Morlocks and he goes to save her. He infiltrates the Morlocks' lair and meets the most intelligent character in the entire story, the uber-Morlock( who I'll call Morrie). Sadly, his new girlfriend is already part of the Morlock buffet.( In the hollywood version, she is held prisoner for breeding purposes. But this doesn't make any sense. If the Eloi and Morlocks are two separate species they would not be able to interbreed. If they did interbreed then after a few generations they would be phenotipically indistinguishable from each other.) Morrie apologizes for having Guy's girlfriend for lunch but offers Guy a lesson in chronodynamics as a peace offering. Morrie explains to Guy the Three Laws of Chronodynamics and tells Guy that because there is no record of Guy ever returning to his own time, he will never return. Guy gets angry and threatens Morrie. Morrie then expains that he is the leader of the local Morlocks and warns that without him the hunter-Morlocks will quickly deplete the local Eloi population. Guy foolishly attacks Morrie anyway. After a brief fight on the time machine Morrie is killed. Guy stops the time machine in the future and realizes that Morrie was right, the hunter-Morlocks have completely destroyed the Eloi and in desperation have started to feed on any and everything in the local area. Guy decides to travel back in time once more to destroy the remaining Morlocks. ( totally ingoring everything Morrie has tried to teach him.) Guy decides to use the time machine as a weapon to destoy the Morlocks. He will lose the time machine but maybe he can kill the Morlocks. This is his biggest blunder yet. If Guy would think about the laws of chronodynamics, he would realize that sacrificing his time machine will not change the future that he has seen. But he foolishly proceeds and destroys his time machine and ,as far as he knows, all the Morlocks. Guy lives with the Eloi for a number of years thinking that he has successfully eliminated the Morlocks. Occasionally Eloi go missing. No one knows if they simply got lost or injured or if the dreaded Morlocks are still out there. Eventually the Eloi's worst fears are realized, the Morlocks are back! And now without the uber-Morlock to direct them, they hunt the Eloi to extinction. One day, as Guy is captured by the Morlocks, he feels the pangs of regret for destroying his time machine and for not heeding Morrie's warning. [/QUOTE]
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