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Forceful_Dragon posted...

Phone sits on floor in the cave until it reaches 3000 BC and gets discovered by Cave man B? But how can that work? We know the phone must never get picked up or moved from its position at that point because we know that from the phones perspective it was motionless for 5000 years. Or is it a situation where the cave man doesn't discover the phone where modern man dropped it, but rather somewhere nearby? And cave man discovers that when he "anti-kicks" in the direction of the phone or causes it to fly towards him? And so he anti-kicks the phone around the cave for a bit until it eventually rests where modern man left it? And from the phones perspective it spent 5000 years motionless, then it got kicked around for a bit and then spent more time in the location where the cave man found it, though from the phones perspective that's where the cave man "left" it when it was done kicking it about.

This logic is along similar lines to where I keep getting tripped up and where the movie might be failing?

To take an example from the movie: say a war in the year 2100 blows a gear off a machine and it lands somewhere obscure. Now this gear sits somewhere, undiscovered, until 2020 where it is picked up by a modern-day scientist. This scientist then places said gear into a drawer in some lab. Scientist continues to live their life with the reversed gear now stored away in a drawer.

But how is this possible? When the gear was making its trip backwards through time, it was still undiscovered until 2020 and not in a drawer. In the movie they clearly show a drawer full of reversed objects from a future war.

Is this not a possible scenario?

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