Time Travel??

[Taeylor Collins]

Since the show found several different ways to travel through time I began to wonder what everyones preferred method would be?  I really wasn't for sure if I should used Angelque's room. However,it did help Barnabas time travel to PT and somehow sent he and Julia to the future!

I personally thought the stairway in time was the coolest method!

[frank b]

As I explain in my book, “The Physics of Dark Shadows,” my choice would be Quentin’s staircase, which I explain is the most realistic method scientifically to travel through time (at least to the past), in that wormholes through spacetime can exist mere inches away and do not violate the laws of physics.

With the staircase (wormhole), a person can travel both through time and space at great distances by traveling through a shortcut method. This would be like walking across a temporary bridge from the top of one skyscraper to another, instead of taking the long way by traveling by elevator to the ground floor, crossing the street, and then going up the other skyscraper’s elevator. By Einstein’s theory, space and time are linked, so when you traverse space, you also traverse time.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I picked the I Ching - and that's because supposedly only my astral self would travel - and if we can go by Julia's experience in 1897, I wouldn't be able to be harmed. Though, of course, I would need someone I wholeheartedly trust to guard my body in the present. 

[MagnusTrask]

We can do polls?!   I know that the Staircase is the ultimate in safe, easy time-travel, but I picked the I Ching just because it's, well, cool.

[Taeylor Collins]

I still have to read your book Frank as I have heard it's great!   I almost went with I Ching because it's cool.  However, in the end the staircase won out.  I think it would be cool if one could find marked events on the staircase and choose were to go!

[Taeylor Collins]

I keep trying to modify and it would time out. That was my 1800Th post! YAY!  I am excited!  I know its really nothing but its a big deal to me!  God status here I come!

[tragic bat]

I suppose the stairway through time is the most alluring, really; it shows up when it wants to (not neccessarily when you are being attacked by zombies) but at least it isn't so dangerous.  After watching Count Petofi's experiments, I would really hate to get the i-ching wrong... 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Nothing forces you to go into an I Ching trance with each throw, so you just keep throwing until you finally get the 49th Hexagram. 

[Midnite]

We can do polls?!

At the top of the board listing, after "mark as read," "notify" and "new topic," there's a button for "new poll."  Haven't you posted in some of the poll topics started by TNickey2003?

[Taeylor Collins]

This is a bit off topic...but it's wild that 61 people have viewed this and only nine have commented!   I wish so many wouldn't lurk!

[Lydia]

Nothing forces you to go into an I Ching trance with each throw, so you just keep throwing until you finally get the 49th Hexagram. 

I'm not sure I'd want to bet my life that the 49th hexagram is safe.

With the staircase (wormhole), a person can travel both through time and space at great distances by traveling through a shortcut method. This would be like walking across a temporary bridge from the top of one skyscraper to another

Just don't look down!

I went for the summoning spirits option because everything else seems to be hit or miss.  The seance option is similar, but seances rarely produce the desired result in the Dark Shadows universe, whereas when Barnabas summoned a particular spirit for a particular purpose, he was able to get to his chosen time period with no fuss whatsover.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I'm not sure I'd want to bet my life that the 49th hexagram is safe.

It certainly proved safe enough for Julia. And if I'm going to travel to a different time, I'd like to have that assurance that I can't be harmed while I'm there. 

I went for the summoning spirits option because everything else seems to be hit or miss.

But you didn't vote for it. 

[tragic bat]

Nothing forces you to go into an I Ching trance with each throw, so you just keep throwing until you finally get the 49th Hexagram. 

That's true--we never saw the cackling skeleton show up in the 49th hexagram.

[Lydia]

But you didn't vote for it.

That's strange, I thought I had.  Well, I have now, unless I messed up again.

[Philippe Cordier]

My immediate thought when I saw this question yesterday was "The Stairway Through Time,"* but I wanted to give it some thought and consider what other methods were used. (Today, I found the poll listing those methods, thanks!)

I would still opt for the stairway through time. I would want to feel in control as much as possible, which I wouldn't if spirits or the I-Ching were involved. The stairway was supposedly the product of a scientific mind, rather than the supernatural, which would hopefully allow you to predict the outcome. The physical act of walking up the stairs, the tactile nature, would give me a sense of security. But I suppose when you reached a certain point, those other forces would take over, or at least you would no longer be in control. It would still be a bit scary, especially if you didn't know exactly when in history you would be arriving.

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*  ® Quentin Collins I