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{{quote|''"We in the trade call this 'Excedrin Headache Number √-3.14159..."''|Larry Niven, ''The Theory and Practice of Time Travel''}} |
{{quote|''"We in the trade call this 'Excedrin Headache Number √-3.14159..."''|Larry Niven, ''The Theory and Practice of Time Travel''}} |
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{{quote|With Fate Reforged, the Sultai Brood has a new khan. Or rather an old one. Man, this time travel stuff gets confusing.|[http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/lab/sultai-ing-it-all-together-2015-02-02 "Sultai-ing It All Together"]}} |
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{{quote|'''Carl Honduras:''' I ARE he! ...Only I'm from the future. |
{{quote|'''Carl Honduras:''' I ARE he! ...Only I'm from the future. |
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{{quote|"It begins to dawn on you that everything you are about to do may prove to have been a colossal waste of time." |''[[Homestuck]]''}} |
{{quote|"It begins to dawn on you that everything you are about to do may prove to have been a colossal waste of time." |''[[Homestuck]]''}} |
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{{quote|"[[Harry Potter|Harry's]] voice trailed off into the inadequacy of English."|''[[Harry Potter and |
{{quote|"[[Harry Potter|Harry's]] voice trailed off into the inadequacy of English."|''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]''}} |
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{{quote|'''Dark Helmet''': "What the hell am I looking at? When does ''this'' happen in [[No Fourth Wall|the movie?!]]" |
{{quote|'''Dark Helmet''': "What the hell am I looking at? When does ''this'' happen in [[No Fourth Wall|the movie?!]]" |
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'''Colonel Sandurz''': "Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens ''now'' is happening ''now''." |
'''Colonel Sandurz''': "Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens ''now'' is happening ''now''." |
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'''Dark Helmet''': "What happened to then?" |
'''Dark Helmet''': "What happened to then?" |
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'''Colonel Sandurz''': "We passed then." |
'''Colonel Sandurz''': "We passed then." |
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'''Dark Helmet''': "When?" |
'''Dark Helmet''': "When?" |
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'''Colonel Sandurz''': "Just now! We're at now, now." |
'''Colonel Sandurz''': "Just now! We're at now, now." |
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'''Dark Helmet''': "Go back to then!" |
'''Dark Helmet''': "Go back to then!" |
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'''Colonel Sandurz''': "When?" |
'''Colonel Sandurz''': "When?" |
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'''Dark Helmet''': "Now." |
'''Dark Helmet''': "Now." |
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'''Colonel Sandurz''': "Now?" |
'''Colonel Sandurz''': "Now?" |
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'''Dark Helmet''': "Now!" |
'''Dark Helmet''': "Now!" |
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'''Colonel Sandurz''': "I can't." |
'''Colonel Sandurz''': "I can't." |
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'''Dark Helmet''': "Why?" |
'''Dark Helmet''': "Why?" |
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'''Colonel Sandurz''': "We missed it" |
'''Colonel Sandurz''': "We missed it." |
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'''Dark Helmet''': "When?" |
'''Dark Helmet''': "When?" |
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'''Colonel Sandurz''': "''Just now''." |
'''Colonel Sandurz''': "''Just now''." |
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'''Dark Helmet''': "When will ''then'' be ''now''?" |
'''Dark Helmet''': "When will ''then'' be ''now''?" |
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'''Colonel Sandurz''': "''Soon''!" |
'''Colonel Sandurz''': "''Soon''!" |
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'''Dark Helmet''': "...how ''soon''?"|[[Spaceballs]]}} |
'''Dark Helmet''': "...how ''soon''?"|[[Spaceballs]]}} |
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Latest revision as of 20:53, 10 April 2017
"We in the trade call this 'Excedrin Headache Number √-3.14159..."
—Larry Niven, The Theory and Practice of Time Travel
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With Fate Reforged, the Sultai Brood has a new khan. Or rather an old one. Man, this time travel stuff gets confusing.
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Carl Honduras: I ARE he! ...Only I'm from the future. |
"You're hurting my brain, Stephen."
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"It begins to dawn on you that everything you are about to do may prove to have been a colossal waste of time."
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"Harry's voice trailed off into the inadequacy of English."
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Dark Helmet: "What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?!" |
Something went down here in the past. Or... is about to go down in the future? You know what, never mind.
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"The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intension of becoming your own mother or father. |