I am here for now on assignment

Pamela!

WOW!!!!

Snarf meself to fragged!

I'll rty to quote you in sequence more or less, but that will be difficult, as many of your questions have the same answer.


"I am a believer of many worldlines (so far) but for the sake of argument I shall ask questions about the one worldline theory.": I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The ideal of infinite worldines (the only way the theory would work) based upon infinite people, based upon infinite decisions, based upon infinite outcomes, swayed by infinite others, is simply a cop-out!

How;s this to set it straight from a mater of perspective? No mater what you do, where you go, or what you'll ever ecxperience, you'll only live your one life in your own time.


"If there is only one timeline and several of your group is going constantly in and out of different times in this timeline how do you keep all of your actions in check with each other in altering?":

It is difficult. This is why our archives, and Yaz for tha tmatter, is in a constant stae of fluz that is outside of the timestream. But there are many different histories to account for. It is a mater of keeping records from what "was" to what "ended up happening" that we can guage things. This is not 100% accurate,a s we don't even know to what extent the time stream was altered befoer we started in, let alone the nature of the cosmos to alter things on its own.


"Do you account for several people in the future also coming back and altering the timeline as well?
Do you account for aliens from other worlds, maybe even close ones from another state of development in the planets time who are also space and time traveling?":

Wll if sevreal people go to the same event to alter it, they are all there at the same nano....in that case, those that win win! Do we account for aliens, or tohers from other worlds,or other lines...etc? We account for changes,probability, T-mass, and results. AS far as we know, there are no aliens jumping in a rippling the timestream. If there are, they are not working with us, and then merely become another obstacle to overcome. No matter what influences the timestream, or how, or from when, it is somehting we have to deal with.


"Which would eventually equal an almost eternity of comers and goers through out time.
If this is true there would be a constant.. and I mean constant state of flux in the time line where you could never really be sure of any outcome or truth. Things would always be changing. things would always be replacing other things constantly...even now as I type.":

Firstly, yes time and what has happended changes even now while you type (or I type...probably more forme because I am not used to typing and make many errors). We do have a saying: the first change is easy, the second is enemey action, the third is stupidity. If a single event is changed, it is harde rto change again because it has twice the T-mass. To put it simply, it holds hte weght of the universe as it would have been, PLUS the weight of the universe as it is at that nexus. If that event can be changed again, it will then hold 8 times the T-mass (2*2*2). As this goe son, it becomes harder and harder to alter a singlualr event because so many factors are now involved. A matter of instinct (of the heart) can change time strem more easily than an intentional premediated act can in the firs tplace, using a re-premeditated acxt to change what has been changed is hard, and doing it again is even harder.

And if the event become so focused upon that agent after agent after agnet is sent there, it becomes a free fo rall, with all vying against the others. even though we may come from sperarte personal times, we are all in the same liner time, andit comes down to he who wins, simply wins.


"Whoever makes the last time trip wins...which is no one.. in a circle of time.":

This idea is invalid on two points. No matter when anyone came from from, if they are traveling to event B, tey would al be present at event B, thusly all would be there at the same time. The idea that the first traveler gets ther last is based uponthe diea that all of history must be played out and then reversed in order for anything to be acheived.

Secondly, there are no circles in a lfuid, only currents, which may be circular but are not circles. Time flows linear by our perceptions, therefore we can conceive of no other concept other than a line. It is only by nuderstanding that the line idea is false that one can comprehend everything all at once, with total control of change.

"Or would the one worldline actually be many worldlines all happening at one time(one worldline) but observed as seperate worldlines?": This may be true as you are speaking of obsevation and not fact. I am told and proven by so many facts that I do not fully understand, that there is only one universe andone timestream. How we justify the end-means to save our egos is strictly up to us. If you believe in the infinite wiorldine idea, which is the only way one can percieve worldines being spereate, then ther is currently a world where we are in your year 4852, on April the first, sitting naked, eating pizza, and laughing at those poor sods that thought that we were ferom the year 2347. it wouldn't mater, however, as the rest of the world sees us a Gods (and Godesses) and we laugh about that too! To me, the idea that sch an absurdity has to be a reality beacuse there are infintie timelines on infinite worldlines cause by infite possiblities, is inane. I am in my life, I have an effect on what happens from the moment I am in to the next moment, regardless of whether or not my next moment is congruent with your next moment. Which is more likely, that a person moving out of the timestream can effect the moments of people as they experience them, or that there are infinite numbers of infinite numbers of possibilites that switch back and forth as somebody does something...unless another infintiy has an infinite sway upon it based upon an infinite number of infinite factors.

"What happens if one time period is visited over and over and over and over and over more than the rest? Do you cause some kind of rip? or bleed through? Is there a "breaking point" where one time period simply cannot endure another time traveler having a change on it?":

Again you are speaking of T-mass. The more an event has been changed, the less likely it is to be changed again. I do not know of any rifts that could be caused, as if you give me alever large enough I could move the world, but it becomes exponentially difficult.

"For example (which is over-simplified): If at one time (say this date and time) a traveler paints a certain building yellow and another time traveler sees the building and paints the same building blue and this goes back and forth over a million times with different time travelers each choosing blue or yellow ..is there a point where the building simply looks green? Or are the buildings simply "observed" different?":

This is where temrinology comes in very handy. Designer and I, I htink, are having terminology problems as I am not using temrinolgy that I am akin to, and my useage of TIME makes the meaning muddled. You ar espeaking of an event that is being, more or less, fought over, by factions with different goals (in your exmaple colors of paint). Assuming, form your exmaple, no outside forces, just us, our paint, and whatever...whomever wins, wins. Joe, from the riech would wnat to paint it yellow, I might be fond of pruple, and severasl toehrs would have their colors. We allshowed up at the same event, so we are all there. At that ponit,in this vacuum, it would be a free for all.

Incidentally, it would end up purple (my opinion), my color, because I tend to avoid such games and would make things such that the only color of paint available would be pruple, or set a pruple paint bomb to go off to acheive my goals.

Even with that in mind, with so many changes being ensued upon the event, once the outcome is determined, to go back anbd change it would be a very slick trick,something to quark about..T-mass again

"If a war is fought and a time traveler makes one side win and another makes another side win and this goes on and on and on is there a point where one will find a lost soldier that some how got caught up in the riff? Lost and not being able to tell when and where he is wandering around a feild in an old style uniform? ":

this is another quesiton of T-mass. Each and every inlfuence upon an event adds to the T-mass. There eventually, in theory, comes a poit where no change can be nmade because the effort to do so will exceed the energy at hand. Assuming that a time traveler is there fromthe onset of the war through the duration, each and every time traveler would be there at the same instance. Again, this is a battly royale, and those that win, simply win. The combined eforts exponetially add to the T-mass, so it will be harder to change again, but it is possible.

Thje lost soldier, as is discussed in moves and fiction, is a form of temporal fallout. This does happen, at least with our machines. The infernal is more like a gun, and it is aimed at more or less the precise space and time and then shot off. In the past 7 liner years of the TP, I know of 39 agents that have been lost, and I only know of two of them that were ever recovered. It is a risk we take...and you have to understand for the thuggies, those that actually make the changes and do the nasty deeds, they dont; reallty expect to live past the now.

(as an aside, I plan on living to a full and ancient life and retiring with wealth and luxury to some place...anywhen...that I can ust be alone, eat pizza, and make music)

To answer your question directly, if there is one of our agents on the good guys side, and oneof theirs shootsin later on thebad guy's side, it isn;t event A and then event B, it is event A with the influence of another agent as well.

Fallout is rare, but does happen in about 1 in 100 of our shoots. We are told that it happens in about 1 in 3500 of the reichs shoots as well. Just straspping yourself into the infernal is a gambkle, let alone the outcome.

/geeting your brains fugazied is a always a risk. Getting fragge dduring the trip is another. Ending up in who knows when is a bigger risk, epsecially by not strapping yourself in. But the occurance of a lost soul in time, wihtout knowledge of whom or what or when (from their standpoint) is so rare that it has myth status rahter than a risk status.
 
Recall;

Is that based upon the Hawkwind song Veteran of the Psychic Wars, by the author Micael Moorcock?

So now I am two books?

If I'm here long enough can you quote an entire libray?

To answer your questions:

"Well, are you here to change something or on vacations?":

I am not here, in this era to change anything. I am here to observe a fwe events, open some bank accounts to be collected upstream, and to "test the waters" so to speak. As I am the most blatant and obvious one of my peers, I am the best choice for the latter part.

I do consider this a vacation (but only one). If I had my way, there's a little tavern in London in the 1840's that serves the best chips I've ever had, and good booze. If they had an intelligent redhead lass and pizza, it would be my own personal paradise. That would be when and where I vacation.

"And your Boss are recruiting people in this T-grid?":

Why? Do you want to sign up? Are you willing to give up each and every facet of your life from the event of your birth to each and every event until many years after you would have died to live a life either on mission or in a bubble? Does your heart bleed for those far into the future that you would never otherwise meet that you want to give your soul over to the life of being wanted and hunted? I was shanghied! Well not really, I just kind of fell in and I'm trying to find joy in the ride.

As far as I know of, we only have two agents that work this era, one thuggie, and myself, and I simlpy set the stage for the others in the next era or for my thuggie to work within.

Until one of us gets fragged or figazied to the point that we can no longer function, we are it for this era. This does not mean that we might not have other goals, we just aren't putting on our Uncle Sam Wants You hat at this juncture.

But then again, i am a fundrasier, a misdirector, and an observer, not a recruiter or a thuggie.
 
Darwin,

Darby;

No I don't know what you mean!

Pretend I'm REALLY out of touch, and have no idea...

what do you mean?
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Sorry 'bout that. The post wasn't for you. It was for the member who uses the handle "Traveler" and was in reference to a post that I made to him on another thread.
 
Darwin,

Chuckling a bit over Pamela's comments. I find it curious that one automatically expects imagination and creativity. Why should I spin some fanciful prose that's snarfing bunk? Alas, the truth tends to be a bit more boring than most would suspect.
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What Pamela meant (if I could be so bold) is that we actually don't expect creativity and fanciful prose. After seeing the umpteenth time travel yarn, once every two weeks or so (see previous post - this explains it) for the past eight years, luke warm yarns tend to put us to sleep, i.e. "Zzzzzzz".

As I've pointed out many times, we don't drag posters to the forum against their will to post a story. They do that on their own.

One has to assume, though assumption isn't always a good thing, that a person who takes the time to think up and write a story expects someone else to read it. That is, unless they work for Sleep-Ez and are simply attempting to put their audience into a nice, restful, state of drowziness as a pro bono public service.

When a yarn writer suggests that s/he doesn't care about the story or the creativity put into it then it isn't unusual to see a majority of posters agree with the profer - they too don't care.

Get it?
 
But once an event is altered, it does become much more difficult to alter it again in the same fashion, or at the same juncture.
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Uh...huh?

Lessee...you alter an event at time t_0. You venture back to time t_0 and have a more difficult time altering the same event that you had already successfully altered?

Why is the same unaltered event more difficult to alter twice (you're going back to the point just prior to the alteration, i.e. t_0)? In fact, givwn your limited knowledge of the event the first time that you altered it how do you know that someone hadn't already altered it? How do you know, given the same limited information, that it hadn't been altered a thousand times before?

I assume that you didn't make this scenario up but received some knowledgable input from someone who knows what s/he was talking about. Enlighten us. Pass along the information, not so much in your own words, but as close as possible to the words of the person who enlightened you.
 
There are no memories to be reconciled, because to the rest of the people in (those in the time stream) universe, the event never did/ or will happen. Well, it's more like the universe doesn't really care, but the end result is the same, as far as perception.
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Uhhh...what?

So what was the motivation for you, from the future, to go back and change the past?

If something occured in the past that had a negative impact on you- and for some odd reason, considering your above statement, you or somewone else ventured back to alter it, what makes you so special and that you have a recollection of it when everyone else doesn't? From the point in time that you decide to travel back the change has already occured. The people in the future who would be authorizing the venture should have no memory of the original negative impact event.

(Aside: Why is it that time travel yarn writers always end up writing a time travel story from the perspective of a person with a Newtonian idea of time as if they have never experienced time travel themselves?)
 
It is a mater of keeping records from what "was" to what "ended up happening" that we can guage things.
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But how does it ever end? Someone else can change it until it gets to your T-mass correct?
To insure a final result of changing an event do you have to change it several times yourself
until you get to T-mass so no one else can change it after that?
Is there a way then to "insure" that your change will be the final one?

I am not fully understanding how the Infernal works and what it can do.

Can two people go through the infernal at the same time?
If this is possible and the two people decide to split up once reaching destination where one decides to travel by car to one state and another to another state then when the machine shuts off do they both disappear together and end up back in the infernal at the same time?

Can the Infernal transport items taken from the visiting time back through it when the machine is shut off along with the person it is retrieving? Do you have to be in contact with said item?
How do you take an object back with you from a visiting time?

If you take items with you on the trip through the infernal like a jacket and you end up leaving it in the hotel room of a visiting destination then drive several miles away and then the machine shuts off and retrieves you does the forgotten jacket also disappear or is it left behind in that time?

I am not understanding how the machine knows to retrieve you. How is one connected to it? Do you create some kind of a measureable field and everything in the feild goes back? Is it hooked to individual atoms and cells ? What happens to shed cells? What happens to the hair you shave here or the food you eat and digest when you go back?

Can anything be shot through the infernal even pressurized containers? what cannot be sent through?

Can the infernal send supplies only through to a waiting time traveler at his visiting destination?
If so how does he keep the supplies from returning when the machine is shut off?
 
I forgot to ask: Can you name some events or times that you know of that have T-massed so they can no longer be changed by anyone?
 
For Darby and Pamela;

The reason I explain things in Newtonian, or classical, physics, is because that it what I have at least a bit of knowledge in. I find the comment about 'as if they've never experienced time travel' to be amusing. People always explain things in terms that they can understand. Likewise, my understanding is that a very small percentage of people are familiar with string physics or quantum mechanics. I would htink that if I were going to spin a fantasy story, thatI would use each and every 'advanced' scientific term that I could to give more weight to it. However I am not doing so, so I can only relate htings in terms as to how I understand them, using ideas that I can communicate with some degree of proficiency. If trvelling through time must make one suddenly an expert on advanced sciences, then I must have missed that class during my training. I am a time traveller, not a time engineer.

Now onto the discussion about T-mass, or T-Mas. As I think I mentioned before, T-Mas is a construct created by humans to explain the phenomenon of an increasing difficulty to change a specific event. In actuality it has nothing much to do with the event itself, merely the factors that inlfuence and event.

If we choose a singular, and very simple, event, such as whether or not you decided to order the thin crust or thick crust pizza for lunch, I can give you an example tha tmight caliry things on a simple matter.

Say you order the thick, for no other reason that you did. I go back in time to that event and I persuade you to order the thin crust...easy enough.

I myself, or somebody else, would travel back to that same event to change it again to the thick crust, they would not only have to contend with altering an event, but also have to counter my persuasion on the event as well...because I am there, during that event, and they don't have to change the event so much, as make my efforts impotent.
This is an example of T-mass. We have the event as it would have (I shall omit the /will have)played out, plus my influence to change it to thin crust, and then the influence of myself again (or another) to countermand my efforts, and put the course back to thick crust.

As this is a very simple example, it is easy to follow (a localized event with only two original outcomes). However, if I would be there inlfuencing it, and others would be there influencing, and perhaps myself again there to re-influence, that single event can become very complex, and even create an unforeseen event outcome...such as you getting tired of an army on one side shouting thin crust, and a choir on the other persuading for the thick crust. In that example, you might just get frustrated and choose to order a salad instead!

This is T-mass. it is not that the event itself becomes harder to change, it just becomes so convuluted with influences that to prevail becomes a much greater ordeal than simply going back prior to that event and changing the events that lead up to it.


There is no final balance of T-Mas, ther just comes a point wher ethe effort to change a singular event becomes too much to be cost-effective. We don't have the resources to endlessly hurl what few thuggies we have at such things, or the machines to shoot them, or the raw materials and supplies to keep the effort going.

And how can we tell if an event has canged, or how do we know how many times an event was canged? To put it simply, we do not. If we attempt to alter an event and fail more than a few times, we simply quit that line of practice andmov eon to another angle.

Now I NEVER said that one cannot go back to another event that has a causal effect on an event with a large T-mass and alter it to effect the event in quesiton. I actually stated that it is more or less how things have to be done.

The T-mass of an event is not really tied to the event so much as it is tied to the factors of the event.

In other instances of T-Mas, it may not be outside factors, but the very details that cause the event to happen.

In order for us to 'know' what has happened, we must check our historical archives against other historical archives, and then weigh and guess at what caused the changes.

And how does it ever end? It probably doesn't. That's why the chrono keepers have such a tough job. There are several strings of history to learn and then they try to pinpoint an event from inaccurate records to sway things towards our goals. And talking to those geeks is almosrt impossible as they have at least 100 names for which version of history you are talking about.

And what makes me so special? (good snarking quote)...Nothing! Whether or not something I know is true is a matter of wher along my subjective liner time I experienced an event. When I am at Yaz, I am outside the flow of linear time, so changes do not effect me. When I am in the stream, I experince things just as anyone else would.

Once you are outside of the stream, you are pretty much working on an educated guess. This gets even more sifficult if you are working a notable event that is prone to lots of change and little T-mass. The agent may not have the updated information, so to speak, and be working on assumptions made from information that is not correct when the event happens.

To explain that a bit more in depth, let's assume that you and I were Both born on June 2nd, in the late 1960's (same year) for 20 years we experience event subjectively in the same amnner. Our expeiences and views, and even memories of particular events will differ, but we will both see time and history play out in a liner fashion. But I go off to the 2300's and you remain.

From that moment onward, you are still experiencing a liner flow of time, whilst I am outside of the flow. Anything that happens after that date is your experience, and a line of possible facts for me to try and learn. I still have my memories of my experiences from when I was in the flow, and you have yours. If I am at yaz, I am apart from the flow of the time stream, so any changes donot have an effect on me, as I am apart from the waters of time. I am in what you might choose to call a temporal stasis.
If events of our mutual past are changed, you will experience them as they become, as the universe changes at once and all in the time stream experience that change as it happens and it becomes a part of their subjective history.

Why does this not have an effect on me? Well, oddly, I WAS in that past, but I am not longer a part of the flow of time (which is all events happening all at once) and my experiences remain immune from the alterations.

And when I am again shot into the stream, I still have my memories totally intact. It has somehting to do with the fact that being reinserted into the stream at a place out of chronological order does not change my personal experiences as I was not in the stream at the moment it was changed. I asked several questions, and was simply told to stop being a smart-mouth and remain quiet.

I firmly believe that there is much more to this than what was explained to me, and I htink it has something to do with Yaz being in a constant free-fallin orbit of time, but I merely told to stop asking questions, or given the 23rd's equivalent of being ordered to go mate with a goat (Frag a Gruff). My personal feeling is htat if all things hapen at once in the same spot in the universe, then the future must effect the past as much as the converse is true. But again I told to not think of such things, and to stop asking advanced quesitons when I have a basic mind.

I am oftimes reminded that shooters that know too much generally go lunar. I also think that this is why agents onyl generally are sent to an era that they would have been in in thenormal flow of the timestream.


On the infernal:

From what I understand about the operation of the machine, each and every one of us radiates, if you will, a certain frequency of sorts. When the machine is activated, it does two things. First and foremost it locks on to a place and time adn 'more or less' shoots us to it. I should bring up that the place is usually very inaccurate as it has something to do wit the position of the planet in the light of what the rest of the universe seems to be doing at the time. The time, depending on how much we know, and how much information is available, is usually accurate to within a few weeks. The further back in liner one must go, the less accurate the detination time is. This is not due to a flaw in the machines, it is due to not knowing exactly when to aim for. Likewise, the geek doing the aiming has a good bit to do with it. The thuggies have a saying about NEVER winning in a game of reverse hold them if the geek you're playing against will pull the trigger tomorrow.

Secondly, the machine, before it shoots you, hones in on your frequency. somehow the idea of mass is eliminated....something to do with an object either having infinite or null mass...and we are shot through. Whatever i can carry on my person goes with me. When the machines are turned off...they actually are not turned off, but sort of reverse polarity, whatever I have on y person is what comes through.

So in Pamela's example, I would have lsot my jacket. it would still be there, awaiting a new owner.

Only one person can be shot at once, and we cannot take freight back with us. To bring another person through requires lots of effort and is pretty much a reverse-shoot.

In a reverse shoot, the infernal must be fed information such as the frequency of the person, and it must scan for an almsot exact place and time. IF the machine can find that subject it then doesn't shoot them back, but pulls them back. Less than half of the people sent forward form their normal timestream survive.
Sending freight up the stream is much easier, as inanimate objects have no psyche to bruise. In extreme cases, a homing device of sorts, that emits a particular frequency is attached. Then the infernals lock onto it and it is pulled back.

If an item of cargo is not part of an extreme emergency, and non perishable, we simply have it buried in an untouched spot and then dig it up furhter up the stream.

To send items downthe stream, it is pretty easy. It is simply shot to the destination and the retrieving agent awaist until they show up. No beacon is sent, so they do not emit a frequency to be drawn back.

There is talk about trying to use the infernals as a sort of replicator, but thus far, all experiments have failed. It would be nice to have a limitless supply of thuggies, or food, or gold. However, these experiments have never netted any positive results. Perhaps if we were all in the time stream the results would be different, but if we were all in the time flow, we couldnot have any perception of what is being done, or what other shave done or will do.

And what is my personal motivation?

A personal question I can easily answer!
I did not choose to do this, I wanted to be a poet or a musician. It chose me. But what do I have to go back to? Would you, as yo uare now, allow such vile injustices to be forced upon your fellow humans? I am not a hero, nor am I anyone special in particular. But to see the results of the carnage that happens because a farmer didn't want to give up some potatos to the riech is unbelievable.

I thought at first that those that recruited me were simply insane. I later thought that I was. But as I get shot into everwhen to do what I do, I see the effects all around me. I do not come from the future, but I came form it. I am from the past, but I no longer belong there. At this juncture, I do what I do because that is all I know of. My life is splintered by incongruent moments, and I am cut off from any pretext of a simple life..a wife, kids, anything that would resemble solace.

And can I name any events that have far too much T-Mas to alter?

Yes.

Bruce Dickinson leaving Iron Maiden!(and then rejoining) The advent of AIDS in the early 1980's. World War II. the fall of the cold war. Cindy Shershaw! The Piri Reis Map. The development of Dr. Pepper. The sexospiritual revolution. The discovery of Rupert.
 
Recall!

I am more of an Iron Maiden fan. Although I've cubed a copy of countdown to extinction and some others from Mustaine's works, I still enjoy Iron Maiden that much more.

However, my boarders turned me on to a band called Tenacious D, which is an actor and guitarist. their music is a parody of rock, and I find it very energetic and humorous.

But alas, there is only one other agent ferom my T-grid in yaz, and she thinks I'm an idiot and very crass.

Doc Franklin might appreciate it, but he's a fan of the Gibb brothers from the 1970's!
 
Your explanation of T-mass makes very good sense to me. But I use a different metaphor.

First let's make a distinction. There is (a) something we might call the 'time field' which has extension and changeability. It is the content of time. Secondly, there is the direct experience of time as a uniform motion. It is the motion of time.

So I think of the content of time as a field composed of very small units, so that it is metrical.This field can be thought of as a probability field. Every path through this field, or action in it increases or decreases certain probabilities. So the T-mass can be thought of (or so I suppose) as a measure of probability.

The motion of time I see as an endless wave train, like ripples on a pond. The crest of each ripple is a now that moves through the probability field, actualizing events.Now if you have a high enough frequency of waves, one behind the other, you can have a 'now" at every point in the probability field. In that sense, one could say that everything is happening at once.

How does this correspond to you ideas?
 
Packerbacker;

You have the right of it, but much more eloquent and scholarly than is my domain to speak of clearly.
I prefer the simple concepts of everyhting happening al lat once, and the more a thing is changed, the harder it is to change that thing.

The big assumption I see here is the attempt to reconcile what actually ends up being to what we would perceive as happening...and others have a difficult labor in the acceptance that any individual moment of NOW can be the result of past or future efforts that influence that subjective experience.

Your illustration sums it up nicely, and I thank you.
 
Some basic questions:

1. Is time linear or does it goes faster and other time it goes slower depending on event; or am I totally wrong and it is just constant?

2. Is time more event driven depending on specific thing happening or it is just time dependent?

3. The further in the past you go the does it become harder to change events thus T-MASS is higher?
 
Zzzzzzz.....


I've already read Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy re. Hari Seldon and the Psycho-historians/historical momentum. And he even used fanciful prose. I'm not an HDRKid fan but her "future lingo", bad though it was, was better.

Two more weeks. Let's see if the next time traveler learns from this attempt and gives it a better effort.
 
Darwin,

Much of what you say is correct.

I do not know if you are a real time traveler or not, but I like your candor.

Good luck in your battle ahead, I see the hyenas gathering for a ‘debunking’ feast.
 
Desinger;

"1. Is time linear or does it goes faster and other time it goes slower depending on event; or am I totally wrong and it is just constant?"

First off, how does one define time? And given that, are you speaking of personal, sunjective, or objective time? As far as I know, although we are familiar with time, we do not truly know exactly what kind of a quantity it truly is. At high speeds, or at the sub-atomic level, we know that time expands or contracts, or just gets unpredictable and quirky. My guess is that our personal time slows down or moves faster depending on the situation that we are in. Time flies when you are are having fun, and it drags when you are miserable. Subjective time also pulsates due to other factors. Objective time, as I know of it, doesn't truly exist, but we merely impose it as an imposition that allows us to do other calculatins. So from what I do know, and what I have overheard, time is not truly a constant, although it can be used assuch for some calculations.

"2. Is time more event driven depending on specific thing happening or it is just time dependent?"
Is time time dependent? From what the science geeks mentioned, an event and time have odd, and sometimes contradictory, relations. The hapeening of an event requires a dirreent definition of time than when it happened, or for how long it endured, or something like that. Time, as a liner flow of second-by-second, is not necessary, but there is some relationship between time and events. As I understand it in simple terms, an object or an event must exist in time beofre it exists. When it exists, and for how long are also other factors that can either be grouped together, or looked at singularly. I think tha ttime and events are the same thing, more or less, as I cannot see time existing if there was never any event anywhere or anywhen. Likewise, events cannot exist without having some sort of temporal measurement (at least three, but some say up to 23).

"3. The further in the past you go the does it become harder to change events thus T-MASS is higher?"

The short answer is yes, although the reasons that I know of why may not be what you would expect. The further back in liner time one goes, the less accurate records are. Details become very sparse and vague, and exact events might not have been recorded accurately, usually haven't been. To just go to ancient France, or someplace anywheren (sorry, that means anywhere anywhen) to do a small thing like get a clay pot to bury for somebody to dig up and sell does not require much accuracy. But to go back and pinpoint the exact da, place, and time that an event occured become much harder as events might not be recorded accurately. This does increase the T-mass quite a bit. There are some other reasons, such as the margin of error in the shoot, poor local-era equipment, and othe such things that make it much more difficult as well.
 
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