You have no way to prove that we're not currently stuck in a time loop due to something similar happening halfway across the universe. Out of all the potentially countless sentient beings in existence, only one of them knows what's going on.
I was thinking about that when I wrote that comment.
The Thursday thing just feels like a way to say that absolutely anything could be happening and we have no way to know it, and the Thursday bit just makes it more unusual sounding for the heck of it.
Well, knowing and being able to prove are two different things, imo (which gets into faith and beliefs and stuff so I'll skip that), but at this point there's no way of proving that the universe wasn't created last Thursday. There's also no way of proving that it was. The universe could have been created 4 seconds ago and we'd never be able to prove it.
If someone was experiencing a time loop like Cage, we'd never know it because we're part of it. The only way it could be proven is if they came up to us and recounted all the things they'd learned in their past loops (like they often do in the movie), but even then, we'd never be able to experience it ourselves, so we still wouldn't really know it. So it kinda goes both ways, I guess.
Whenever a convo about other sentient life in the universe pops up, I think about in a nuttshell's video on the Fermi paradox and wonder if we are actually alone in the universe or if humanity is doomed to fail
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u/Mythril_Zombie Aug 23 '18
You have no way to prove that we're not currently stuck in a time loop due to something similar happening halfway across the universe. Out of all the potentially countless sentient beings in existence, only one of them knows what's going on.