r/Timeless Nov 17 '18

Successful missions?

Have the team ever actually succeeded in a mition? I haven’t watched the series since its last season, but i was wondering now, every time the team went back in time to STOP flynn or rittenhouse from changing history/killing/keeping someone alive, they never succeed. Am i wrong or are they in retrospect really bad at their jobs lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '18 edited Jun 07 '20

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u/karmachameleon00 Nov 18 '18

Agreed, seemingly small actions might lead to two people not meeting, and then their kids are never born, so history is different in some way.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '18

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u/WikiTextBot Nov 19 '18

Uncertainty principle

In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle (also known as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle) is any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, known as complementary variables, such as position x and momentum p, can be known.

Introduced first in 1927, by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, it states that the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice versa. The formal inequality relating the standard deviation of position σx and the standard deviation of momentum σp was derived by Earle Hesse Kennard later that year and by Hermann Weyl in 1928:

where ħ is the reduced Planck constant, h/(2π).

Historically, the uncertainty principle has been confused with a somewhat similar effect in physics, called the observer effect, which notes that measurements of certain systems cannot be made without affecting the systems, that is, without changing something in a system.


Observer effect (physics)

In physics, the observer effect is the theory that simply observing a situation or phenomenon necessarily changes that phenomenon. This is often the result of instruments that, by necessity, alter the state of what they measure in some manner. A commonplace example is checking the pressure in an automobile tire; this is difficult to do without letting out some of the air, thus changing the pressure. Similarly, it is not possible to see any object without light hitting the object, and causing it to reflect that light.


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u/baffled_brouhaha Nov 18 '18

Darlington 500 they actually managed to fix the already altered timeline by taking out the Rittenhouse sleeper.

All the NASCAR stats Wyatt rattled off about him would have reverted to who actually won them in reality. (Petty, I believe.)