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I’ve searched every way I can think of and can’t find anything.

I remember it played a nursery rhyme like a music box when both armrests were gripped.

That’s my sister and I visiting my great-grandmother in her infirmary in *1975. The chair wasn’t meant for visitors, but for children housed in the infirmary.

The chair had metal armrests that acted like actuators, and a metal box under the seat that played nursery rhyme songs like a music box when both armrests were gripped and the chair rocked.

Was this a common thing, perhaps mass-produced, or just something jerry-rigged by some guy?

Have you seen anything like this? Thanks!

(Sorry for reposting; my post went wrong last time.)

Self-explanatory, I think. I miss being able to flag users in Res – I usually used it to mark known trolls or experts in a subject so I could easily see them in threads. I sometimes used it to mark people who were especially witty or the like.

I think it was all client-side, because I had to import/export when changing clients.

It greatly contributed to my overall experience, and I think it would be a very valuable addition to Voyager.

Thank you, you’re awesome! ❤️

This report on experiments into time travel and extra sensory perception during the 1960s and 70s deserves a read.

It relates to non-physical time travel which, after years of research, I’m personally leaning towards as far as feasibility.

Assuming time is a separate dimension from the 0th-3rd, we wouldn’t be able to move in it in the third dimension (the physical) any more than we can physically move with our bodies in the 1st or 2nd.

If consciousness can move in higher dimensions, though (and we know it does, because it moves in time every moment; that’s how we perceive time), it isn’t constrained to the third like our bodies are. We already move through time, so the task would be moving consciously instead of being dragged along.

This may all be pseudoscientific bullshit, but if we can find empirical ways to test these hypotheses, I believe it’s worth exploring.

I’ve tried several Lemmy apps for iOS, and just switched to Voyager based on a recommendation here.

Oh my god, it’s fantastic!

I was a loyal Apollo user from beta till the enshittification, and your app makes me feel like I’m home again. It’s beautiful, has the features I so loved, and then some.

Thank you for your hard work and attention to detail. I love your icon/logo, too. You’re the best! <3 <3 <3

e: the only thing I don’t see is the Tip Jar. Am I just missing it?

Shortly after this picture was taken, we were on a float with my mother for the bicentennial parade. She made both our outfits of a (very itchy) polyester gabardine, and she wore a dress to match.

The apples my sister is holding meant something, but I don’t remember what and now I can’t ask her. I’d be very interested if anyone knows the significance of the apples during the US bicentennial.

I was 5 and my sister was 3.

I haven’t seen this with any other characters (lvl 46), but Sam Coe does this all the time. It’s so very creepy.

They’re both semi-feral and don’t always get along. Precious (the calico) doesn’t often have patience with her daughter, and Moppy (the big one) spooks at everything, real or imagined. I’ll never get another picture like this, so had to share.

Abstract

This paper is an enquiry into the logical, metaphysical, and physical possibility of time travel understood in the sense of the existence of closed worldlines that can be traced out by physical objects. We argue that none of the purported paradoxes rule out time travel either on grounds of logic or metaphysics. More relevantly, modern spacetime theories such as general relativity seem to permit models that feature closed worldlines. We discuss, in the context of Gödel's infamous argument for the ideality of time based on his eponymous spacetime, what this apparent physical possibility of time travel means. Furthermore, we review the recent literature on so-called time machines, i.e., of devices that produce closed worldlines where none would have existed otherwise. Finally, we investigate what the implications of the quantum behaviour of matter for the possibility of time travel might be and explicate in what sense time travel might be possible according to leading contenders for full quantum theories of gravity such as string theory and loop quantum gravity.

Proof this is a Bethesda game. It feels like home.

I’m no astrobiologist. Could be defensive or a mating display. Open to ideas.

1. There is a large philosophical literature on the first two paradoxes (and others), see, e.g., the entry on time travel, Wasserman (2018), and Effingham (2020), but very little on the easy knowledge paradox (emphasized by Deutsch 1991, discussed further below). Our approach differs from the literature surveyed in these two books by focusing on the physical—rather than metaphysical—possibility of time travel.

2. Multiple collisions are handled in the obvious way by continuity considerations: just continue straight lines through the collision point and identify which particle is which by their ordering in space.

3. The dynamics here is radically non-time-reversible. Indeed, the dynamics is deterministic in the future direction but not in the past direction.

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Interesting discussion by Christopher Smeenk.