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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 03:48:27 JST mcc

   Do you ever think about the idea of very slow time machines. Like a conveyance that can move at a speed of two years per year or somesuch

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 03:48:25 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Nazo

     @mcc @nazokiyoubinbou OK, but please consider for a second. If the intent of time travel is to have the experience of two years in what subjectively feels like one year, could that be fixed by slowing down your mental processes? Just think slower, experience slower, and two days go by in the time that feels like one.

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 03:48:26 JST Nazo

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     @mcc I mean, if you think about it, we're already-

     *Is hooked off the stage.*

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 03:48:26 JST mcc

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     @nazokiyoubinbou Faster than that

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 03:50:52 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Nazo

     @mcc @nazokiyoubinbou you could, for example, only sleep once every two nights, but for 16 hours. You could take 12 hours between meals instead of 6. Slow your walking pace, take longer reading the pages of a book. Soon, the world would seem to be speeding by while you are running at normal subjective speed.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 03:53:40 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @mcc @nazokiyoubinbou subjective experience of time is so tricksy, I think it would be quite possible to modify with the experience of time passing.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 03:58:17 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Nazo

     @mcc @nazokiyoubinbou when we talk about time going forward or backwards, or at different speeds, you have to ask, relative to WHAT? and the only real answer is our own subjective experience. If the entire universe went forward in time twice as fast as "normal", there would be no way to tell. Nobody would know.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 03:58:43 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @mcc @nazokiyoubinbou tl;dr "time travel" is just the word we use for the universe changing out of sync with our own personal experience of time. Of those two things, it's much easier to change our subjective experience than to change the entire fucking universe. So, "time travel" is best effected by changing how you experience time.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 04:03:45 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Nazo

     @mcc @nazokiyoubinbou I think you could do this with time travel into the past, too. Or, at least, time travel from the future to the present. If the person you will be in 2040 were to travel back to 2025, and were to inhabit your body, what would they think and feel? Let those thoughts and feelings take you over, and guide your actions. (You need to remember to do this on the other side, in 2040, but only for a moment.)

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 04:05:17 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @adiz @mcc @nazokiyoubinbou it's a perspective shift, whether you are changing who you are, or changing the universe.

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     👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 04:05:19 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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     • Nazo

     @evan Nah. I expect the universe to change for me. @mcc @nazokiyoubinbou

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 04:15:18 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Nazo

     @mcc @nazokiyoubinbou I mean, most of us have it all the time. Weeks go by and feel like days; what we think was an hour is only 5 minutes. We arrive in the nick of time for trains for which we were 20 minutes late. Clock time and mind time drift a lot.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 04:15:19 JST mcc

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     @evan @nazokiyoubinbou i tried this once with just getting really depressed

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 04:37:39 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Nazo

     @mcc @nazokiyoubinbou it's never too late to time travel from the future to your present self.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 04:37:40 JST mcc

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     @evan @nazokiyoubinbou This would be absurdly useful for me but since I didn't think ahead of time to do this in 1997 or 2011 it is less helpful

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 04:39:42 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @mcc @nazokiyoubinbou also, are you sure you won't have traveled back from 2026 to 1997? Memory is a tricky thing. Maybe you did, and just forgot. Or maybe you were just zoned out and didn't notice it.