Re: saying hello and why I'm not posting

Jim Gysin wrote:
> Steven L. sent the following on 5/3/2008 11:11 PM:
>> Jim Gysin wrote:
>>> Steven L. sent the following on 5/3/2008 7:09 PM:
>>>> himiko@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Are we even sure that the flashforwards we're seeing are all
related?
>>>>> There could be any number of alternate timelines and we could be
>>>>> seeing different ones that don't necessarily relate to each other.
>>>>
>>>> In podcasts and press interviews, the producers have said repeatedly 
>>>> that the flashforwards are all really happening in the future.  
>>>> There are no alternate possibilities or multiple timelines, because 
>>>> they wanted the audience to connect emotionally with the 
>>>> flashforwards, which would be more difficult if the flashforwards 
>>>> were only hypothetical.
>>>
>>> Did they give the same assurances regarding the present and the past?
>>
>> They can't.  Desmond has been traveling into the past and changing it. 
>> He killed a mouse.  :-)
> 
> I'm not sure how they're gonna try to explain it all, but "course 
> corrections" have to involve a "correction" at *some* point in the 
> timeline, and if you're not gonna do it in the future, you have to do it

> in the past.  Or else it won't get done.

Sigh.  Here we go again:

Faraday sent Eloise one hour into the future.
Eloise returned with knowledge of how to run the maze.
Then Eloise died.

Once Eloise learned the maze from the future, Faraday could no longer 
teach it.  You can't teach a mouse something it already knows.

But once it died, it never survived into the future to learn it then
either.

So one way or the other, the timeline has been broken.

It's exactly the same problem with any trip into the future that gives 
you advance knowledge:

Want to win the Nobel Prize in medicine for curing cancer?  Build a time 
machine and travel into the 23rd century when cancer has been cured. 
Take a sample of their advanced medicine back with you to 2008. 
Announce your cure for cancer.

Question:  If you are credited with the cure for cancer in 2008, then 
how could anyone have invented it in the 23rd century in the first 
place?  The medicine just keeps traveling from the 23rd century back to 
2008 without ever having been invented in the first place.



-- 
Steven L.
Email:  sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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