Diverging Back to Primer
December 3, 2009 in Blogs
I’m growing more accustomed to the updated browser, and one of my in-house computer experts has solved my mouse problems (although it’s now running very fast, so I’ve got to adjust to it, too), so things are going a bit more smoothly.
I posted another temporal anomalies article at The Examiner. I’m moving through questions slowly at this point, mostly answering them when I’ve posted an odd number of articles in a series so I’ve got an extra day to fill before Monday returns. Thus this one addresses the (im)possibility that divergent dimension theory might be the solution to the Primer story. I invite you to read Primer question 3: multiple dimension theory 1 if you have a spare few minutes.
There have also been some comments, finally, on the Star Trek series, and someone has suggested I turn my attention to Terminator since the DVD of the fourth film is now available, but I don’t yet have it and my series on Butterfly Effect is mostly ready to launch, so that’s where I will be on Monday.
Meanwhile, I’ve been devouring C. J. Henderson’s Teddy London series, forcing myself to read something non-fiction between each installment and pushing through the works of Muller and John Stott and F. F. Bruce so I can justify reading the next of these good supernatural detective pieces. I keep mulling over writing reviews of them, but I’ve got so much on my plate as it is. Still, maybe I’ll get to them.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on December 3, 2009
I just watched the new Terminator. There’s no time travel in it at all.
M. J. Young said on December 4, 2009
I already know that. I also know that John Conner makes mention of the idea that the events happening are not those his mother said were going to happen, and thus that he is not in the timeline about which his mother had been told.
I don’t know how that works yet, because I’ve not seen the movie, but it appears that we are not in the final history in this film, and that might be interesting.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on December 4, 2009
Of course MJ. You said that yourself. When they destroyed Cyberdyne in T2, that reset the time line back to the original creator of Skynet. Postponed the war 10 years. In the history that Kyle Reese came from, the T-800 series was the top of the line, and the T-1,000 was the first of its kind. In the reset time line, the T-X was the most advanced machine. Something changed radically.
M. J. Young said on December 6, 2009
Yes, John, but in the final history there can be no memory of any other history, except that conveyed by travelers to travelers. Sarah can only know the history that was told her by a traveler from the future; that traveler ultimately must come from the last created future.
The T-X is more advanced than the T-1000 because it is created later. Its capabilities are different, but it is suggested that it is more advanced, even though it does not have the capacity to take inanimate forms so easily.
Of course, you might be right. I theorized that John sent back the T-800 with information about the timeline that his mother originally received (concerning Cyberdyne), so if that is the case, it might be that John is confused because he failed to realize that the T-800′s information had been intentionally falsified by himself. That creates a wealth of other problems, but I will have to see the film to know.
In any case, I now have a copy, but I don’t expect to have a chance to view it for a few days yet at least.
–M. J. Young
–M. J. Young