Take it Down to the Wire
Nothing much to report on. I have clinical placement next week, which apparently is the same time this camping trip is happenning. Can't do much about it.
Called up Westmead Hospital this morning to get detail on my clinical. I think I spent about 10 minutes on hold before actually being transferred to the Chief Radiographer. I'm kind of pissed that it took that longer, but I have had worse and the hospital has (presumably) more important things to do. I was tranferred 4 times. I remember. Because I said "Hello, I'm a student from USyd and I'm on clinical placement next week. Can I please speak to the Chief Radiographer?" four times. Ah well. That's done and now I play the waiting game.
Exam results aren't out yet. The grades on the website are like 'not yet received'. I've got fingers crossed. Pretty sure I got at least Credits.
The last episode of Doctor Who. The season finale for the third season. What can I say? It was an awesome ride. There are a few things I disagree on, like one death and the ways the physics was whacked off a bit, but that's television for you. It's not about the science, it's about the emotional ride. And let me tell you, it was one hell of a ride, especially the end.
Heh. I so want a sonic screwdriver of the Doctor. There's one on Ebay. It's a replica with a pen and UV lights and stuff. I might get it. Let me go find some money. There must be some under my bed. There must be!
The series has peaked a bit of interest in the theory of time travel. And it's a bit more complicated than I originally thought. Take the grandfather paradox. You go back in time to kill your grandfather before you were born, thus creating the paradox. Since you killed you grandfather and since you never existed, you never actually travelled back in time to kill you grandfather. This implies that you never actually killed your grandfather, and so then you were actually conceived anyway to go kill your grandfather. Yeah. A bit of a mouthful, but there you go. Wikipedia helps a lot.
Been playing F.E.A.R. It's one of those titles where the developers chose the title first then decided to make an acronym out of it later. So FEAR stands for First Encounter Assault Recon. It's a pretty scary game. Not scary like in-your-face-monsters-and-shit scary, but more like freaky-little-girl-Japanese-horror scary. I literally can't play it alone. Well I can, during daylight hours. But as the sun sets, I have to have my brother watching over my shoulder or vice versa. So yeah. Pretty scary shit.
And here's a little something-something
You would you choose? Limit of two, three, say? I'd put my money on Ms Korea and Russia.
4 comments:
haha. lol, (first ep) when the sonic screwdriver got fried - i felt like crying. no! anything but that!
luckily he got a replacement x)
and on the time travel thing: to travel back in time, there has to be a causal loop kinda thing. let's say you were the first person to invent a time travel machine (like the tardis). for you to travel back in time, a time traveller has to exist in your past. because if they didn't you wouldn't actually be travelling back in your time - you'd be travelling back to another possible world.
i took philosophy. my lecturer spent an hour dissing the concept behind back to the future and terminator. he was however, a doctor who fan. x)
I don't think you would need a time traveller in the past for such travel. I think you are refering to a certain type of time machine, wherein you can only travel back to when the machine first activated, thus, it is more a limitation of the machine rather than the limitation of time travel.
Of course your second point is perfectly valid. The Many Worlds Interpretation means that once you travel back into time, you're creating a new timeline by that act, thus creating a different world, splitting off from the original.
Back to the Future and Terminator both point out a valid interpretation of time travel. That there is only one timeline and any changes you make will affect the said timeline. Terminator was a bit more strict in my opinion. The Human-Machine War was always going to happen. Changing the past merely changed the circumstances of the outbreak of the War. Changing the timeline was actually tougher. And Doctor Who presents a reality where changing the timeline is much easier.
You should see the finale of the third Doctor Who series. It's hella awesome.
ah - but we're i'm not talking about 'many worlds interpretation'. am referring to (re: lewis if you want to check it out) Possible worlds. sounds the same but ... different.
oh - and the problem with terminator was the unreliable narrator. remember how she said stuff (end of judgement day i.e T2) about the future being unknown or something --> well, how unknown is it if there's a 'future' from which the T's come from. it's the same future as their's right? and that brings about the question of determinism, fate and free will. does our will actually matter, do we even have freedom if the future's already been decided.
... it's too late to be talking / typing philosophy.
although dammit steven, where were you when i had a huge essay (40%) to write on this shit. it's making more sense to me now then before.
lol
The future in Terminator was changed, to a certain extent. The outbreak and development of the machines were quite different in the T3 than the other movies. Anyway, it could be viewed that the timeline in the Terminator universe is inherently resistant to change or the Novikov self-consistency principle has kicked into affect. If the Terminators were never sent back in time then John Connor would never turn out to the lynchpin of the human resistance, creating a paradox which the Novikov principle states would have prevented. You can affect the past but you cannot change it. For all we know the reduction of free will is minimal at best, because the Human-Machine war was always going to happen, but the circumstances affecting it were changed, which may have affected the war itself or its outcome.
Wait a minute, why am I discussing time travel? lol. Next time you have an essay, do what Jack did and send it over so I can proofread and give comments. Even though commercial law and philosophy are not my backgroud area.
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