Because really, how are Sam and Dean going to time travel for real??
Okay: so, they get a flux capacitor for the Impala and then drive and get up to 88mph...
If someone's got a theory that doesn't involve aliens and/or a time machine, lay them on me, because I really am curious as to how you guys think this is going to happen.
*scratches Back to the Future scenario*
Well, I'm gonna go with the consensus so far about natural time warps, having experienced one myself (at Hampton Court Palace, 1987 -- I'll tell ya about it sometime, and I've got three witnesses who can vouch for me!). This can include the Brigadoon concept where you have a place from a point in history that appears in the present every so many years, because of folds in the space-time continuum.
The thing to remember that time is not a straight line, and that it's not so much going BACK and FORWARD as just hopping around to different spots in the space-time continuum. A time machine would allow one to actually control one's "hopping," just as getting into a car and driving from point A to point B -- a man-made thing to manipulate the distance and how to cross it -- but time is a naturally occuring beast that is otherwise uncontrolled. Thus, when phenomena like time warps come along and you happen to be in the vicinity...you get caught up in them.
And then there's always the Somewhere in Time theory. No machines other than the mind itself. Just make sure the boys don't have any 2008 pennies in their pockets when they go. ;)
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Date: 2008-07-23 05:02 pm (UTC)Okay: so, they get a flux capacitor for the Impala and then drive and get up to 88mph...
If someone's got a theory that doesn't involve aliens and/or a time machine, lay them on me, because I really am curious as to how you guys think this is going to happen.
*scratches Back to the Future scenario*
Well, I'm gonna go with the consensus so far about natural time warps, having experienced one myself (at Hampton Court Palace, 1987 -- I'll tell ya about it sometime, and I've got three witnesses who can vouch for me!). This can include the Brigadoon concept where you have a place from a point in history that appears in the present every so many years, because of folds in the space-time continuum.
The thing to remember that time is not a straight line, and that it's not so much going BACK and FORWARD as just hopping around to different spots in the space-time continuum. A time machine would allow one to actually control one's "hopping," just as getting into a car and driving from point A to point B -- a man-made thing to manipulate the distance and how to cross it -- but time is a naturally occuring beast that is otherwise uncontrolled. Thus, when phenomena like time warps come along and you happen to be in the vicinity...you get caught up in them.
And then there's always the Somewhere in Time theory. No machines other than the mind itself. Just make sure the boys don't have any 2008 pennies in their pockets when they go. ;)