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• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So I have to destroy 2 electrons to fuck over causality.

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  • iii@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How could you destroy 2, if there’s only one?

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s why it would fuck over causality

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      • iii@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ah, you’re viewing it as a timetravellers’ dilemma.

        My view was more that we’re an observer in the lagrangian solution of the differential equation we call life. The electron, being a constant in the equation. Remove the electron, you alter the equation, therefore destroying known life.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Careful, reality might just destroy you instead to avoid the paradox. I suspect that’s how it avoids all of the paradoxes if time travel is possible in a single timeline universe. And this idea isn’t compatible with the multiple timeline time travel idea (otherwise the electron will end up in a different timeline each time it jumps backwards).

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you destroy it, that will be the end of its timeline

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  To destroy every other quantum state of the single electron, wouldn’t you need to destroy it at its beginning state? The end state would be at/just after the heat death of the universe, so it wouldn’t really make any difference then.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The end state doesn’t have to be at the end of time if the electron can travel backwards in time. It can go to the end, head back towards the beginning, and get destroyed somewhere in between.

    Strictly speaking it would have to get destroyed at some point, or at least have something stop it from going back and forth, otherwise the universe would be all electron.

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