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ost_uid0]Has anybody ever seen 7 days? I have absolutely no idea how they explain that... [/quote
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That was kinda strange. I mean, how did he avoid running into himself? And with all the jumping back, wouldn't that mean he'd get older a lot quicker compared to those around him? It just doesn't make any sense.
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ost_uid0]I don't know that novel. What was the explanation?
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You know the theory that goes 'For every major event the timeline splits so that all the possible outcomes happen [i
ost_uid0]somewhere[/i
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ost_uid0]Sliders[/i
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ost_uid0]Timescape[/i
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ost_uid0]was[/i
ost_uid0] the event. The timeline that the future scientists occupy continues as normal from their point of view, but a new timeline is created in which the ecological disaster doesn't happen because the message tells the past scientists how to prevent it. Basically speaking, they cause a new leg in the Trousers of Time to appear in the past whilst continuing down their own leg.
Does that make any sense?[/color
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