The first thing I thought was “that’s neat,” and the second thing that came to mind was “that pizza never existed until it was taken from the future.”
I mean, yeah, the comic could continue, and the characters could ignore it, but… does this imply that the characters can will anything into existence so long as it eventually disappears? Could they “borrow” a car from 10 years in the future so long as it’s taken by their past selves in 10 years?
Only from the perspective of the characters, though. To us it clearly existed in panels 3 and 4, prime for taking by any higher dimensional beings, that’s what I mean. It doesn’t mean the characters can will anything into existence, it means that time is just another dimension to travel through, and there are entities (that one slice of pizza for example) that travel backwards and forwards.
Another way of seeing this is that it would look equally alien to our 2 dimensional shadows when we pick something from our pockets, or turn something inside out, but it still makes sense to us 3d beings
The first thing I thought was “that’s neat,” and the second thing that came to mind was “that pizza never existed until it was taken from the future.”
I mean, yeah, the comic could continue, and the characters could ignore it, but… does this imply that the characters can will anything into existence so long as it eventually disappears? Could they “borrow” a car from 10 years in the future so long as it’s taken by their past selves in 10 years?
Only from the perspective of the characters, though. To us it clearly existed in panels 3 and 4, prime for taking by any higher dimensional beings, that’s what I mean. It doesn’t mean the characters can will anything into existence, it means that time is just another dimension to travel through, and there are entities (that one slice of pizza for example) that travel backwards and forwards.
Another way of seeing this is that it would look equally alien to our 2 dimensional shadows when we pick something from our pockets, or turn something inside out, but it still makes sense to us 3d beings