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Maybe both are the original? Think of the turnstile in tenet. A person who enters while traveling backwards seems to appear twice, traveling in two directions o
by Joeri 5y ago
Maybe both are the original? Think of the turnstile in tenet. A person who enters while traveling backwards seems to appear twice, traveling in two directions of time, but clearly both are the original. If one then reverses and catches up to the other, they are still both the original, even though they can shake each other’s hand.
What if the transporter malfunction causes the same for riker, except both rikers now travel forward in time right from the start. Therefore, they are both one and the same original riker, but they inhabit the same points in time at different points in space and therefore they will diverge as soon as they exit the transporter.
- inopinatus 5y agoAs a hypothesis go, it’s worth stating, but only since it leads directly to a conservation-of-mass problem and is therefore disproved by contradiction, a problem that Tenet does not encounter (it has its own problems of course, most obviously causality issues from the conflation of pataphysical outcomes with thermodynamic constraints). Therefore neither are the original Riker, which was evidently terminated in the most horrifying fashion the first time it stepped into a transporter beam.