> > > it was hard to convince gemini to the accept the block universe model > > > > > > i had never heard of it being questioned before > > > > > > it soudns like a lot of physicists had to work very hard to convince > > > people that they didn't want to work on phone booth time machines > > > because they only knew about subatomic particles > > > > so it _sounds_ like if you wanted to (now of course this will be wrong > > because the thoughts got paused-debugged) make a backwads compjuter > > that calculated outputs from inputs, you would want it to be a quantum > > computer, so that the entropy would be held in uncollapsed waves > > rather than specific phases and polarities of thermal emis-- > > but mostly it's just really hard to keep engaging. > > i suspect it's not reasonable to do and it's more fun to stop thinking > about it and make it seem like it's doable
there are three big options. option 1 (most likely): not reasonable to do and then you feel sad and people are less misled by reading what you write option 2 (second likelihood): it's only reasonable to do if you have the resources of oppressively running a slave nation, and then they'll steal the tech from you when you start figuring it out and worsen things option 3 (least likelihood): you decide it's doable, nobody else believes it, and then a time machine becomes our obsessive life project that we never complet--
