[X had seen some strange things here. Some rather strange things. Magic, anthropomorphic hedgehogs, pokemon, and even a strange item that allows inhuman beings to become human.
But time travel?
It was true that there were various means of time travel, and many theories attached to it, though nothing was conclusive. And say that someone several hundred years in the future could invent time travel just to go back in time to a strange place between worlds to work as a truancy officer; that was all well and good, and could be probable, X supposed.
But what about the whole fact that what he was proposing was that they were, in fact the same person? Sure, there was the Novikov Self-consistency principle (IE: everything a time traveler did was meant to happen anyway, and caused history to go through *because* of his time travel), but wouldn't that have been too farfetched?
Then again, all time travel concepts were pretty farfetched, whether it was the Multiple Universe or Multiple Timeline hypotheses, but it had to be something.
If X had a stomach, it would have clenched. As it stood, his body heat was rising and his fans were audibly trying to cool him off as his insides sparked with excitement.
Was he really looking at himself, or was it an uncanny facsimile with a different eye color?
Either way...he clearly looked just like he did hundreds of years ago (hundreds? Was X really going to live that long?), and they had the same name...]
[2/3] I actually did research for this tag.
But time travel?
It was true that there were various means of time travel, and many theories attached to it, though nothing was conclusive. And say that someone several hundred years in the future could invent time travel just to go back in time to a strange place between worlds to work as a truancy officer; that was all well and good, and could be probable, X supposed.
But what about the whole fact that what he was proposing was that they were, in fact the same person? Sure, there was the Novikov Self-consistency principle (IE: everything a time traveler did was meant to happen anyway, and caused history to go through *because* of his time travel), but wouldn't that have been too farfetched?
Then again, all time travel concepts were pretty farfetched, whether it was the Multiple Universe or Multiple Timeline hypotheses, but it had to be something.
If X had a stomach, it would have clenched. As it stood, his body heat was rising and his fans were audibly trying to cool him off as his insides sparked with excitement.
Was he really looking at himself, or was it an uncanny facsimile with a different eye color?
Either way...he clearly looked just like he did hundreds of years ago (hundreds? Was X really going to live that long?), and they had the same name...]