Time box trick

[rbandrews]

I will stop posting about time boxes really soon now, I promise.
I can tell from the utter lack of comments just how much everyone else is interested in this.

I have an idea about what nesting boxes could be used for: travel into the future.

A box is a closed loop in time between point A, when it's turned on, and point B, when you turn it off.

From your perspective as the time traveler, you build a large box, turn it on and walk away. Later, you build smaller boxes, turn them on and then take them inside the large box with you. Wait until you're at the point where you turned on the large box, then get out, taking the activated small boxes. Turn one of them off and get inside.

Now, the small box is the same thing as the large box, a closed loop in time between two points. The difference, and the purpose of the large box, is that the small boxes' point As are in the future, and the point Bs are in the past. If you get into one of these small boxes and wait a while you'll travel forward.

This isn't amazingly useful, because you're still only traveling forward at the same rate. Traveling forward outside the box would be the same thing... Except for subjectively.

Remember, the moment you turn on any box is when something gets out of it. So suppose you're about to do something, and you need a lot of heavy supplies or something. Suppose you're launching a really heavy satellite, to take an example from the film. You launch a small, turned off box instead, then turn it on and pull the satellite out. Take the activated box back down from orbit and stick it in the large box. The large box takes it back in time, to the day before, when you remember sticking the heavy satellite in the small box.

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[gigaclon.livejournal.com]

uhhh... ok, my brain hurts now. thanks!