tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13370428.post4157984712148199054..comments2024-01-23T00:20:46.682-05:00Comments on Where I Am: Boldly Going Where I May Already Be...Christy Duffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13192519166354022489noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13370428.post-41943224899397988522009-06-08T16:32:44.215-04:002009-06-08T16:32:44.215-04:00Dave - you put a lot of thought into your reply......Dave - you put a lot of thought into your reply... Thanks for that. I hardly know where to start to reply. I'm not sure I like your assesment of my logic, however. Perhaps you should read Catherine's take on it. I think she gets it.Christy Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13192519166354022489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13370428.post-80328457320007788402009-06-08T16:19:17.773-04:002009-06-08T16:19:17.773-04:00Catherine - thanks for the support!
Mary - I gues...Catherine - thanks for the support!<br /><br />Mary - I guess what you say depends on if the people around you know Sean!!Christy Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13192519166354022489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13370428.post-73788834024240148082009-06-08T15:10:31.554-04:002009-06-08T15:10:31.554-04:00Ok - I can't stop laughing long enough to type...Ok - I can't stop laughing long enough to type...my co-workers in open cubicles next to me are asking me what I am laughing about...what can I say.May Lnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13370428.post-35298618477979317382009-06-08T14:45:46.389-04:002009-06-08T14:45:46.389-04:00I thought your logic was impeccable!I thought your logic was impeccable!Catherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17054198318242454049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13370428.post-85685197720103982152009-06-08T12:58:13.256-04:002009-06-08T12:58:13.256-04:00My wife just finished reading Twilight; and to cel...My wife just finished reading Twilight; and to celebrate I told her I was going to bite her and turn her into someone like me: we live only on Coke and we can't engage others in debate because our logic might kill them. Also, we think too much about the inner consistency of sci-fi movies:<br /><br /><i>Yeah, I don’t get that. "If I go ten years into the future doesn’t that mean I won’t have had the opportunity to age so I’ll just be the same as I am now?" Why were we even having this conversation?</i><br /><br />I think the problem here is more that you wouldn't be there at all. If the past you went into the future, there would be no future you because in the past you left (this is all assuming that time operates in a straight line).<br /><br /><i>“NO!” said Sean. “There’s a 49 year old you in the future! And if you go ahead ten years you’ll meet her." Geek status setting back in.</i><br /><br />Everyone else's idiosyncratic obsessions always seem so geeky to us. I wonder if Sean ever gets similar emotional responses when you talk about Christian music, ER or fashion. Just an observation.<br /><br /><i>“See,” he continued, “if you travel through time you’re creating an alternate reality that functions along with the reality you left.”</i><br /><br />So, Sean (and Star Trek) are assuming here that time functions in a straight line and that there are any number of straight lines running alongside each other so that you can jump between them. Or, perhaps more precisely, that there is one straight line and every possible point in that straight line splits into an infinite number of other straight lines. There is also the assumption that if you could go back along your particular line and change some event, you would create a new line that spurs off the old one, or that your change erases everything further down that line. If so, your future self could come and visit your past self, but not vice versa, unless someone in one of those other strands counts as "you". Is the Spock from two strands over really Spock? We talked about this very situation in one of my upper level logic courses at MSU. That's money I'll never get back.<br /><br /><i>“So using your logic,” I queried, “since we’re heading back home to have dinner, I could sit here and say, ‘Well, in the future you’ve already had dinner,’ so we don't need to have dinner now. Because there’s an ‘us’ in the alternate reality and perhaps we’ve already had dinner there so you don’t really need it at all.” He decided to end the conversation there because he really wanted dinner.*</i><br /><br />Your logic is totally and completely insane here, but I like how it didn't really matter because you won this argument by using Sean's desire not to lose out on any "dinner". This is how women rule the world.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471316128366458679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13370428.post-46469675265678913062009-06-08T10:19:26.021-04:002009-06-08T10:19:26.021-04:00Oh. My. Word. I meant my next dinner date with Se...Oh. My. Word. I meant my next dinner date with Sean!Christy Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13192519166354022489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13370428.post-55085727361279329162009-06-08T10:03:28.267-04:002009-06-08T10:03:28.267-04:00Dinner date? An interesting word choice based on ...Dinner date? An interesting word choice based on the context of this post.Chef Cookaloninoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13370428.post-79163066561750615352009-06-08T09:50:05.374-04:002009-06-08T09:50:05.374-04:00The only thing I remember from "Back to the F...The only thing I remember from "Back to the Future" is the Huey Lewis song and Michael J. Fox... beyond that I'm drawing a blank. We'll have to watch it before our next dinner date.Christy Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13192519166354022489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13370428.post-69365670731685712772009-06-08T09:41:02.267-04:002009-06-08T09:41:02.267-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Christy Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13192519166354022489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13370428.post-57346886945496880412009-06-08T09:14:31.242-04:002009-06-08T09:14:31.242-04:00Your homework assignment is to watch "Back to...Your homework assignment is to watch "Back to the Future." Doc has it all figured out. Also, thanks for reminding me to call Molly and find out what time we're having "dinner."Chef Cookaloninoreply@blogger.com