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Episode 5: The Avengers, Time Travel, and The Deutsch Proposition

The Theory of Anything

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The Difference Between Forward Time Travel and Backwards Time Travel

There's nothing about forward time travel that seems at all paradoxical or contradictory and there's no question of could you go do whatever you want it. Backward time travel gives people problems but forward time travel is really just what we experience all the time interesting. The virtuality simulation suddenly somebody comes through the portal it's you coming through the portal you're a version of yourself five minutes in the future and it starts to interact with you right well you never actually went through so how does this virtuality simulation know how you would react well for the sake of argument this is totally made up science fiction.

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