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If you possessed such a device then errors in your "predictions" would be indicative of another party using a similar device. As such, I assume multiple parties
by c22 7y ago
If you possessed such a device then errors in your "predictions" would be indicative of another party using a similar device. As such, I assume multiple parties would soon discover each other, engage in an incomprehensibly complex time-battle, and there would suddenly (instantaneously in all patched timelines) be only one such party.
Furthermore, I imagine it would be very easy for such a party to accidently blunder into a situation where they lose control of the time-messaging device, erasing all evidence of its own existence and leaving the timeline perturbation-free until such "time" as reverse time travel is rediscovered.
- alasano 7y agoAs a fan of time travel movies, I'd watch this.
- eximius 7y agoSounds like Dark.
- cwkoss 7y agoOr an episodic series where every episode has a new main character inventing time travel and then accidentally destroying the conditions that allowed then to invent time travel.
- ecnahc515 7y agoYou may like the anime Steins;Gate then. The plot is based on the idea of sending a small amount of information back in time and changing the sender's present, and then finds that another organization has been using this and is trying to control the world with the power.
- opnitro 7y agoEveryone in this thread should try Primer! Great little movie about a similar concept (smaller in scale though). Tries really hard to stick to its own rules.
- lonelappde 7y agoIt's approximately the plot of Primer
- Galaxeblaffer 7y agoFuture Diary has some pretty cool time battles. While it's not as good as death note, it definitely has it's moments. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2069441/?ref_=m_nv_sr_1 https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2069441/?ref_=m_nv_sr_1
- Terr_ 7y agoIn the book Singularity Sky [0], mankind invented the first time-looped computer, and it cycled up to a godlike overlord. After making a lot of very disruptive changes (which of course seem to be immediate to everyone else) it seems to have become surprisingly disinterested or uninvolved. Anyway, it has only one hard "commandment": Nobody can violate causality anywhere inside its own historic light-cone, since doing so could be a potential attack (or competition) to its own existence. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky
- Haga 7y agoBook was so much better than accelerando
- ad-hominem 7y agoThis is basically the plot of the new Blake Crouch novel Recursion - except the "device" requires you to die while reliving a past memory (after which you travel back in time to the moment the memory occurred).