Time Travel in the Star Trek universe

[Trekfan12]

I found this article that talks about time travel in Star Trek

http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/02/how-time-travel-works-in-star-trek/

 

[Mytran]

Nice collation of information - although I don't understand why this idea that the USS Bozeman was stuck in a time loop for 90 years is still mentioned: The time loop was generated by the Enterprise and the Bozeman colliding, wasn't it? Ergo, the Bozeman couldn't have been stuck in the loop for more time than the Enterprise was!

 

[Christopher]

Nice collation of information - although I don't understand why this idea that the USS Bozeman was stuck in a time loop for 90 years is still mentioned: The time loop was generated by the Enterprise and the Bozeman colliding, wasn't it? Ergo, the Bozeman couldn't have been stuck in the loop for more time than the Enterprise was!

But that's the thing about a time loop -- no matter how many iterations it goes through, exactly the same amount of time passes! When it comes to nonlinear time, you can't trust common-sense assumptions about duration or simultaneity. Look at Kirk and Picard in the Nexus -- Kirk had just arrived even though 78 years had passed outside.

 

[Destructor]

...and the Pevensie's spent half a lifetime inside that wardrobe but only a few minutes had passed in our world!

 

[Destructor]

I really liked this article and it made me super keen to read the DTI books.

 

[Christopher]

^Yay!