Comment on Scifi question about time travel:

• FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  His future self showed his past self the lottery numbers through the open window, but he closes the window, so his future self can’t show them to his past self.

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  • CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve read your message and the OPs like 5 times and I still have no idea what is being described… I might be stupid.

    Could it be restated to say he gets the numbers from his future self but then 30 years later just forgets to do the same thing for his past self?

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      His future self opens a window and says “Hey, get some paper and a pen, I’ve got some winning lottery numbers for you!” and his past self goes “Oh boy!” and then immediately CLICK (closes the portal) before ever being shown the numbers.

      Here’s your issue - it’s not the future self opening the window, it’s his past self. The future self can only speak through the window, but he can’t open it. So since the “current” self closes the window, the future self won’t be able to speak through it.

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  • kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I would assume they sent them after the number was drawn, to before the number was drawn, which means the future self doesn’t need their own message to learn the numbers.

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