Zaleramancer  (4/28/2010 at 7:44 p.m.)

Found that on wikipedia, interesting way of thinking, huh?

Zaleramancer  (4/28/2010 at 7:44 p.m.)

"There is a spookier possibility. Suppose it is easy to send messages to the past, but that forward causality also holds (i.e. past events determine the future). In one way of reasoning about it, a message sent to the past will "alter" the entire history following its receipt, including the event that sent it, and thus the message itself. Thus altered, the message will change the past in a different way, and so on, until some "equilibrium" is reached-the simplest being the situation where no me"

Zaleramancer  (4/18/2010 at 5:51 p.m.)

I just wanted to put all the possible views i could think of their. Sorry if i annoyed anyone.

667  (4/18/2010 at 5:46 p.m.)

The 'butterfly effect' and the 'destiny phenomenon' are the two main schools of thought when it comes to time travel. Unfortunately nobody knows which is true, because time travel is as yet impossible. So Space/Time Manipulation's effect on the continuum can differ characterization to characterization, and nobody will call you on it. I chose to include the 'protection of the timeline' clause to cirpoopvent these issues--but you-all can choose whatever you like to think for your own stories.

Shadowulf1  (4/18/2010 at 5:32 p.m.)

Um, everybody knows how the butterfly effect works; if the butterfly is too big and you kill it, a whole bunch of events are undone, and a whole bunch of new events arise in the place of the old events...

Zaleramancer  (4/18/2010 at 5:32 p.m.)

I never said i was right, 667 has the last say for his power. I just thought i might mention other view points. Thought, might i ask, how does the universe know its being messed with? Or what is "important" to history?

WishIHadThis  (4/18/2010 at 5:25 p.m.)

I'm still going with 667, the universe will have a snap back effect trying to keep continuity

Zaleramancer  (4/18/2010 at 4:40 p.m.)

es everyone get what i tried to say? Is anyone confused?

Zaleramancer  (4/18/2010 at 4:39 p.m.)

Well thats one view point. Or you could look at it in a different way. For example if someone went back in time and changed something, they were supposed to change it. In other words, If someone messed with the past, the present would not change because the the future time traveler (reltive to the present) Changed the past already resulting in the current present. So the time travler is jsut doing what was supposed to happen anyway, and nothing changes. But this is your power, so you decide. Do

667  (4/18/2010 at 4:25 p.m.)

Exactly. Or, you can undo an unnatural change another time-traveler made; ie placing your friend 80 years in the past. However, not even then is it totally consequence-free--if the friend did anything important or had any children during his 80 years, those events would be erased.

WishIHadThis  (4/18/2010 at 4:22 p.m.)

So that means even with such a great power you cannot prevent death. But can you cheat the universe by making a fake copy to replace someone so they die the same way but they are not really dead and bring them back to the future. That way you will make history the same but only change the future. Everyone will think the history is the same so it wont be any drastic change to history

667  (4/18/2010 at 2:44 p.m.)

If the user attempts to drastically change the past--like killing Caesar or preventing the invention of fire--the universe sends you back instantaneously. There may even be some power blockage involved in the process, though that depends on the 'offense'.

WHD  (4/18/2010 at 9:23 a.m.)

Time will protect itself from changing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_principle Whatever the time traveler does, is meant to happen (fulfilling his/her role in history (like with Hiro Nakmura and Takezo Kensei: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_paradox

kiraPT  (4/18/2010 at 7:42 a.m.)

But i think condition its not right "Cannot rewrite history, as the universe protects itself and sends you back ", because if you travel to the past, you are already changing the history right?

no_name  (2/05/2010 at 9:53 p.m.)

woah! this power will probably always be somewhere on the top ten most wanted superpowers

667  (10/23/2009 at 9:44 a.m.)

Haha, you could probably spend 5 minutes with time frozen staring at the situation working it out. "So if I hang this bucket here and shove this bookcase there while he trips over my aunt's cat.."

silverstar09  (10/22/2009 at 11:45 p.m.)

i can think of like 10 million ways to fight with this power hahaha

667  (10/11/2009 at 1:28 p.m.)

Theoretically, yes. But the truth of the matter is this ability requires so much concentration for the simplest uses, 99% of users never progress beyond the base ability. It'd be much simpler to halt time ad walk around the bullets.

If you can manipulate space as well as time, could you distort space around you to alter the trajectory of , say, bullets etc.?

Shadowulf1  (8/04/2009 at 8:48 p.m.)

does anyone know the email address that one will see when one's ability has been accepted?

667  (6/10/2009 at 5:27 p.m.)

No! Magnetism is a form of energy, which is NOT covered by this power. Your manipulation of space lets you travel long distances without moving--teleportation.

kinoay  (6/10/2009 at 3:58 p.m.)

if u can manipulat space,doesnt dat meen u can create magnetic forcefield?

Zaleramancer  (6/04/2009 at 5:54 p.m.)

The last one

667  (6/04/2009 at 2:35 p.m.)

If you mean, "I jump forward 50 years and find myself an old man", no. But if you mean, "I jump forward 50 years, stay there a year, and come back a year older," yes.

Zaleramancer  (6/03/2009 at 11:57 p.m.)

do you age while time traveling?

kinoay  (3/27/2009 at 10:24 a.m.)

SO COOL!!!

Just imagine being able to teleport, time travel, and manipulate the flow of time at the same time. Nice.