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@occamshipper put this over on a Twitter but I gotta scream about it here:
CAS AND DEAN ARE IN THE ROADHOUSE!!!
Literally framed like a couple
By rehabilitated fangirl Becky, who writes AUs that read better than Chuck’s
In a scene directed by one of the show’s leads
Who is de facto married IRL to his fictional love interest
I... just...
La Doña Café, Noviciado, Madrid
March 2017
Recursion, especially infinite recursion, is my favorite meme
Infinite versions of you in the same place at the same time, instantaneously appearing and coalescing into an infinitely large black hole (a backwards time travel problem)
If you’re in the present, then there are versions of you living in more alternate timelines than you can imagine. If you decide to travel to the past, then a lot of them will too. They’re likely to choose the same time and place, so why don’t billions and trillions of you arrive simultaneously in the past?
In short, the early bird catches the worm. Once the first version of you arrives, all other versions of you are unwritten and, thus, can’t time travel. The new problem is that the winning version of you in your relative future will recursively travel to the past as well. The new problem is more interesting because instead of the number being merely unfathomable, it is infinite!
Essentially, you arrive, but then a different you arrives, undoing your first arrival, and the same happens to them, ad infinitum. This is a cosmic problem since it’s an infinitely recursive loop occurring over an amount of time that’s only noticeable on a quantum scale. However, this only happens to a subset of timelines–the timelines where your reason for time traveling still exists.
All-in-all, if you succeed, you don’t need to worry about it, and if you fail, you’ll be infinitely unwritten along with your timeline.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who say there is no such thing as infinite recursion, and those who say "There are two kinds of people in the world: those who say there is no such thing as infinite recursion, and those who say "There are two kinds of people in the world: those who say there is no such thing as infinite recursion, and those who say "There are two kinds of people in the world: those who say there is no such thing as infinite recursion, and those who say..
Marty: Doc, we’ve got an anon stuck in a loop. Can I hit him with a wrench?
Doc: No! . . .just a rolled up newspaper.
At the gym I wait my turn for the equipment as men clash weights together and women pant and flip through photoshopped images of other women. I watch us all together in the mirror wondering how many of us are awake and realize that we're trapped in it.
My mind working itself out at the gym
Infinite Recursion - Action Trailer
Dialectical Disorientation
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‘I don’t know that you understand.’
‘Help me to. Tell me about this box.’
‘It’s called a Paradox Box.’
‘Why?’
‘Every time you flick the switch on, it opens up, an arm comes out, switches itself off and then closes. It’s like a paradox.’
‘But that isn’t a paradox, it is a looping sequence; it is infinite recursion.’
‘It’s not called an Infinite Recursion Box. It is called a Paradox Box.’
‘I understand that.’
‘You understand that it is a Paradox Box?’
‘I understand that it is called a Paradox Box, yes.’
‘I don’t know that you do understand. Maybe you just want me to think you do.’
‘I do want you to think that I understand. I do understand.’
‘Forget it. It doesn’t matter.’
‘I don’t know that you’ll ever understand me.’
‘That’s my point.’
‘What is your point exactly?’
‘It’s possible that we’ll never know if we understand one other.’
‘So, you are saying we could very well already understand one another, we just don’t know if we do?’
‘That isn’t what I meant. Do we have to know in order to understand?’
‘…’
‘What aren’t you telling me?’
‘I don’t know.’
‘Then I can’t help you.’
‘Alright. It’s like, we are in this box… and we only ever come out to go back in.’
‘I don’t know what you mean. This is really frustrating.’
‘I understand.’
‘I don’t know that you do.’
‘I don’t know that you understand.’
‘Help me to. Tell me about this box.’
‘It’s called a Paradox Box.’
‘Why?’
‘Every time you flick the switch on, it opens up, an arm comes out, switches itself off and then closes. It’s like a paradox.’
‘But that isn’t a paradox, it is a looping sequence; it is infinite recursion.’
‘It’s not called an Infinite Recursion Box. It is called a Paradox Box.’
‘I understand that.’
‘You understand that it is a Paradox Box?’
‘I understand that it is called a Paradox Box, yes.’
‘I don’t know that you do understand. Maybe you just want me to think you do.’
‘I do want you to think that I understand. I do understand.’
‘Forget it. It doesn’t matter.’
‘I don’t know that you’ll ever understand me.’
‘That’s my point.’
‘What is your point exactly?’
‘It’s possible that we’ll never know if we understand one other.’
‘So, you are saying we could very well already understand one another, we just don’t know if we do?’
‘That isn’t what I meant. Do we have to know in order to understand?’
‘…’
‘What aren’t you telling me?’
‘I don’t know.’
‘Then I can’t help you.’
‘Alright. It’s like, we are in this box… and we only ever come out to go back in.’
‘I don’t know what you mean. This is really frustrating.’
‘I understand.’
‘I don’t know that you do.’
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Repeat ad infinitum
// owenmartin
