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Banned for explaining an apparently nonfunctional way to back up a universe.
I *think* this would work, though:
1. Split the time stream somehow. Flipping a coin should do it; if not, measure the spin of some random proton or electron (which will be +1/2 or -1/2). According to the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics, any time some event could happen one way or another (such as a quantum coinflip), the universe actually splits, creating one universe in which it comes out heads (or +1/2) and another in which it comes out tails (or -1/2).
2. Remove all worlds in one of the split time streams from that time stream, so no time appears to pass on any of them. That's how phasing works, right?
3. Let the other time stream evolve normally until someone breaks it.
4. Phase all the phased-out worlds in the first stream back in. Again, that's how phasing works.
5. Let this time stream evolve until just before whoever broke the last one.
6. Do whatever you do to make a universe not break when that person divides by zero.
7. Rinse and repeat.
This way, the only difference between the two streams (before breaking) is the state of your coin. But nobody's ever going to see that, so who cares? Also, if anyone does, they won't see it change suddenly- if they see it as heads, it had always been heads in that universe; if they see tails, it had always been tails.
Which all leaves only one thing:
8. Set up a script to automate steps 1-7.
I *think* this would work, though:
1. Split the time stream somehow. Flipping a coin should do it; if not, measure the spin of some random proton or electron (which will be +1/2 or -1/2). According to the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics, any time some event could happen one way or another (such as a quantum coinflip), the universe actually splits, creating one universe in which it comes out heads (or +1/2) and another in which it comes out tails (or -1/2).
2. Remove all worlds in one of the split time streams from that time stream, so no time appears to pass on any of them. That's how phasing works, right?
3. Let the other time stream evolve normally until someone breaks it.
4. Phase all the phased-out worlds in the first stream back in. Again, that's how phasing works.
5. Let this time stream evolve until just before whoever broke the last one.
6. Do whatever you do to make a universe not break when that person divides by zero.
7. Rinse and repeat.
This way, the only difference between the two streams (before breaking) is the state of your coin. But nobody's ever going to see that, so who cares? Also, if anyone does, they won't see it change suddenly- if they see it as heads, it had always been heads in that universe; if they see tails, it had always been tails.
Which all leaves only one thing:
8. Set up a script to automate steps 1-7.
What happens if the coin lands on its side instead?
Banned for trying to break the universe.
Banned for not realizing that I was trying to explain how WithBlaster might be able to not break the universe without wasting 13+ billion years each time.
Also, the coin flip was mostly an analogy; while (to my understanding of QM) a particle's spin can technically be a superposition of +1/2 and -1/2 (i.e. somewhere in between), it will pick one or the other when you measure it.
Also, the coin flip was mostly an analogy; while (to my understanding of QM) a particle's spin can technically be a superposition of +1/2 and -1/2 (i.e. somewhere in between), it will pick one or the other when you measure it.
Banned because I don't get how dividing by zero even breaks the universe. I mean, when you write it on paper (or in a post), it's not even evaluated. Even when it is, it *should* just break the top-level process that's doing the dividing... for example, when I type (/ 1 0) into REPL, it just throws an ArithmeticException. It doesn't even crash REPL, much less my computer.
Banned for having a signature which starts with a lyric from a song that got so lost in its own metaphors that it practically means nothing.
Banned because If you stare at your avatar hard enough, you'll notice that it consists of three triangular rings, interlocked in such a way that if you were to remove any one of them, the other two would be free to float apart.