![]() We have the historian working on tenure. Show started with a lazily written line about men being obsessed with how big things are. TL DR While it wasn't the law on a bus in New Jersey, at that point in history, 1937, it would've been socially expected making it historically accurate. He ordered her to give up her seat to a white passenger, she refused, and that's what she was charged with, refusing to obey the bus drivers orders. Instead, it was the law that the driver of the bus could control seating. If you're familiar with Rosa Parks famous refusal to move to the back of the bus in 1955, it wasn't actually the law at that time that black people go to the back. While it's true that the south had laws that forced black people to the back of the bus and New Jersey didn't, you'll find that it was still the social standard that black people went to the back of the bus.īayard Rustin famously refused to go to the back of the bus in 1942 in Pennsylvania (border to New Jersey) and while he was arrested and beaten, since he technically didn't break any laws, he was released uncharged. They have the black guy having to sit at the back of the bus in New Jersey, New Jersey did not have Jim Crow laws.Īww, you sweet summer child. this means that Universe-A is missing a Lucy! In Universe-A Lucy would truly be a missing-person. So then Lucy-A and Lucy-B would never meet in this scenario.Īlso. ![]() Since Lucy-B is gone from her universe (now living in Universe-C), no one will ever see that particular Lucy again, and everyone will just mistakenly believe Lucy-A is their Lucy! If that's the case, then Lucy-B might likewise trigger yet another branching event, creating Universe-C! Universe-C would then contain her (Lucy-B), and whisk her away within the folds of it's own timeline. She too might have jumped back in time to the year 1937 in her Universe-B. Well, maybe that's because Lucy-B is gone somewhere. So there is indeed a birth certificate that exists for a "Lucy" in Universe-B.Ĥ) So if there are 2 Lucys in Universe B, why didn't they run into each other at the house? ![]() If an observer in Universe-B dug deeper into your background, that person would say that you don't exist (there's no record of a birth certificate, etc.).īut nevertheless, there you are! You do exist, and you do have a physical/real point of origin in history (except that your historic point of origin begins at Universe-A)!Īs for the scenario in the TV show Timeless, it is a bit trickier, but it could go like this:ġ) Lucy A, in Universe-A, in 2016, presses a button, and goes back in time, and changes things.Ģ) This then causes a new Universe-B to branch off.ģ) Universe-B now has 2 Lucys! There should be 2 Lucys in this scenario, since unlike the example further above, she never interfered with the meeting of her Grandparents. Universe-B: now contains you (and NO other version of you, since your Grandparents never met in the timeline of Universe-B). This paradox is, of course, a HUGE topic, but one way for the universe to handle this paradox would be through parallel universes.ġ) In Universe-A you step into the time machine, and prevent your Grandparents from meeting.Ģ) At that moment, once you've prevented them from meeting, Universe-A branches off into a new timeline we can call "Universe-B", which now contains you. In other words, if you go back in time and prevent your Grandfather from meeting your Grandmother, then you'll never exist.Įrgo, how could you have possibly gone back in time in the first place, if you never existed? ![]() Well, I think what you are saying here is essentially what is known as the "Grandfather Paradox". R/television's favorite shows of all time (2022 edition) >!Spoiler!!Television!< becomes Television Links ![]()
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