Talk:The Philosophy of Time Travel (book)

If anyone had travelled back in time, would we not have evidence of this in history. Space and time are linked, you cannot change one without the other. i.e. If I was displaced in time to appear in the future, the world would have moved happily along on it's course and when I reappeared I would be floating in space. bummer.
 * You assume the wormhole stays fixed relative to the universe. The problem is rather conveniently solved under the simple assumption that the wormhole's position shifts concordantly with the Earth. If you wish, Occam's Razor dictates it is merely a movie and hence not subject to true serious analysis. CABAL 22:57, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Question: "I am another user and have a question: does the book really exist, or is it just something the creators of the movie invented?

M."

Answer: "The book is fictional. Only existing in the movie.

J."

Question: I was just reading threw your littil fake book, but i don't understand. Wher are chapters 3,5,8 and 11 ?

S. "

I guess the book "the philosophy of time travel" is open to interpretation. i checked this page to see if i could obtain the book in its entirity, which i can't. A few of the previous remarks reminded me of what i was looking for in the book.

First, the title is 'the philosophy of time travel,' and i think it's meant to perceive time travel from a philosophical perspective, not a scientific perspective. By nature, philosophy tends to be more egocentric (it struggles to be objective).

The book can't really be interpreted apart from the movie "donnie darko" either. my most solid interpretation of the movie is that donnie died by the mysterious jet engine (unless this was a metaphor for something more conventional), but that everything that happened thereafter was only a pre-death apparition... kind of a vivid dream that donnie was having about life before he gave it up. Maybe because he was young, he wasn't really ready to leave the world behind right away, and had the vision that was the movie, in order to come to terms with his life.

The philosophy of time travel is about the personal experience of life and death. How the world can be hundreds of millions of years old, but our lives only last at most around a century.

My personal philosophy surrounds itself in the notion that our personal lives and the memories that come with it are temporary, but that consciousness is greater than this. Maybe we become part of a thinking entity beyond the scope of a human being, and combine our consciousnesses with other beings? Life is always evidenced to exist as combinations of working parts, such as the components in cells, or organ systems in living creatures. What makes this impossible?

My girlfriend fell asleep watching this movie, and i saw it as part of a midnight revival theater thing, where my local theater plays old films and cult classics. but, damn. this was a pretty cool movie. -townofnewhaven@gmail.com

Took out two characters from list of Manipulated Dead
Every character in Donnie Darko except for Donnie, Gretchen, Samantha, Rose and Frank are Manipulated Living.

I took Samantha and Rose out of this category. It's questionable at best whether they're Manipulated Dead. No real evidence exists that they are. If someone can come up with a citation then feel free to put it in (although huge portions of this article are probably Original Research, I don't feel like excising the entire thing because it would be useful for fans of the movie) Levid37

Reference to who are Manipulated Living or Manipulated Dead : http://ruinedeye.com/cd/time10.htm