You heard right every person. Me writing in this blog has actually amounted to one (1) person following me. So happy I-just-realized-that-I-have-one-follower Day, what is it, January 4th? Okay, so from now on, January 4th is I-just-realized-that-I-have-one-follower Day. Anyway, no need to disappoint any of my one (1) follower(s). So what to rant about today? I say time travel!
So, here's the deal, for Christmas I received a book. A book written by a favorite author of mine, Orson Scott Card. And before you are all, "I love Ender's Game" shut up, Ender's Game is a good book yes, but it is not Orson Scott Card's only book, so read more of his books, in a series other than the Ender series, you might actually enjoy them. Anyway, back to the point. The book, Pathfinder, deals with something that's a little confusing to me, Time Travel.
In the book the main characters have the ability to travel back in time and do things in the past to change the present. the problem is when they should or should not go into the past and do such things. It's terribly confusing. In some cases the character Umbo will get a warning from himself about some danger. Originally, the characters believe that Umbo has to go back and warn himself at a later time, because he was just warned by himself, but they conclude that since the warning was already delivered and the flow of time has been altered, that Umbo now does not have to go back. However, in another situation, Umbo decides that he will take a jewel from their own pouch, at which point, the jewel disappears. Because the jewel disappeared, Umbo has to go back later and steal the jewel, which he eventually does. So the question is, when we as humans learn the secrets of time travel, are there times where it will be necessary and unnecessary to travel through time, or does Orson Scott Card have his ideas of time travel messed up? Discuss.
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