{"id":3920,"date":"2009-10-06T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2009-10-06T23:52:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T15:52:38","slug":"one-second-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/10\/one-second-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting the One-Second Time-Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TFfwY1FJjmI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TFfwY1FJjmI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>(How to Create Your Own Time Machine Moments)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the charmingly creative film &#8216;The Science of Sleep&#8217;,<br \/>\na guy invents a one-second &#8216;time travel machine&#8217; to impress a girl.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the most disarmingly cheeky scene I&#8217;ve seen in the movies.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8216;What are you going to do with one second?&#8217; she asks<br \/>\n&#8216;Well, it just adds up. And life is too precious.&#8217; he replies<br \/>\nIndeed, time matters, second by second.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He pushes a button to return one second backwards in time&#8230;<br \/>\nonly to push the button to return one second back in time&#8230;<br \/>\nonly to push the button to return one second back in time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He later snaps out of it, and I wonder how,<br \/>\nhaving caught himself in an infinite time loop,<br \/>\nthat he theoretically cannot free himself from.<\/p>\n<p>He pushes a button to go one second forward in time&#8230;<br \/>\nand plants a surprise kiss on the girl, followed by another similar one,<br \/>\nbecause the first time is from the future, and the second the present!<\/p>\n<p>The girl asks why he did that,<br \/>\nsaying that maybe they have different perspectives on the future.<br \/>\nThe guy remarks that the machine is objective!<\/p>\n<p>You can travel to the past via your memories.<br \/>\nAnd you can only travel to the future at one second per second.<br \/>\nAll you have is now to get there, and even that slips away&#8230; now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is impossible to retain the the past mind<br \/>\nIt is impossible to hold on to the present mind<br \/>\nIt is impossible to grasp the future mind<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Buddha (Diamond Sutra)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[ad#scienceofsleep]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(How to Create Your Own Time Machine Moments) In the charmingly creative film &#8216;The Science of Sleep&#8217;, a guy invents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-time","wpcat-26-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}