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Aren't there 2 spheres when Frank arrives in the past?

posted 14 years ago by MuggySphere
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When Frank arrives from the future aren't there 2 spheres?

Couldn't they keep collecting them?

[–] ZAROVE 13 years ago

People are too use to other Time Travel shows where someone can meet his past self.

This show was a bit more realistic. Its more like the old “Time Machine” movie by George Pal. Parker is not going to the past, so much as forcing everyone else to rewind their lives. As he is not being rewound, he is not part of the process.

So to them, he “disappears”.

The Sphere and Frank appear to vanish to outside observers. Of course they don’t really. They just were not part of the process of going back in time, and were kept out of it.

[–] MuggySphere 13 years ago

Thanks that's a good explanation.....

I just wish they'd hurry up and put this on DVD

[–] mal karma 9 years ago

So someone may be talking to Frank and then he just dissapears and appears somewhere else. Did they use this in any episode? because they should've.

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[–] Matthyew_AKA_Jasonbronze 11 years ago

it chooses the physics that it uses when dealing with time travel as there are a few, alternate dimension etc which doesnt mean its more realistic just that because Parker was in the sphere which was made of a special substance and was the object itself it meant he travelled one dimensionally instead of running into another him

[–] justinboggan 8 years ago

Maybe there are two Parker's When they get a call there's been a backstep, or Parker shows up, NNL protocol may involve Ramsay getting a team, finding the old Parker and taking care of him, if you know what I mean. Maybe that's why Ramsay is such a grouth -- no matter how many times he eliminates Parker, Frank always comes back. ;-)

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[–] abby0315 8 years ago

This is from Wikipedia:

Significantly, the natural laws of time travel within the series operate to prevent cohabitation of a timeline by more than one version of a person or object: anything arriving from the future replaces its past self. Paradoxically, the effects of the future upon the new arrivals remain in place, creating a paradox that allows information to be sent to the past. For this reason, the on-duty chrononaut is typically confined to base as the absence of the chronosphere and/or its pilot is used as a means of determining a Backstep has taken place (and to prevent civilians from seeing Frank vanish into non-existence when replaced by his future self). This concept however is contradicted in a number of episodes, where Backstep personnel appear to become aware of the Backstep only when Frank calls in as 'Conundrum', his backstepping call sign.

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