Why was it so important to keep the rabbits apart? The "leading" theory is that if they touch or even saw each other that "bad stuff" would happen. I posit that it's much simpler than that.
Imagine the timeline from the rabbit's point of view. One minute you’re munching on carrots, then next you are stuck in this machine and a bright light flashes. Then you’re hopping around again oblivious to the fact that for a few minutes, your doppelganger from a few minutes ago is still eating those carrots in the next room.
And what would have happened if the two rabbits met? Nothing... but when it was time to send one back... WHAT IF YOU SENT THE WRONG ONE?
At this point the rabbits are indistinguishable, and you could easily screw up and grab the wrong rabbit for your temporal testing. Then you've got one rabbit that was never placed in the temporal device at all, and one that is looping forever in the same ten minutes over and over again. THAT is why it's so important to keep them apart; you don't want to mix them up!
Now obviously if two humans were in the same situation, you could just ask which one was which. But what if they lied? (Not that anyone ever lies on this show)
So you find out you are selected for a temporal test, to go back in time ten minutes, meet and greet yourself, and then watch as you head to the machine to travel back again. Since we are dealing with just one person and not two, collaborative lying would be easy.
Candle: "Umm, which of you two hasn't traveled yet?"
Traveler: "Me sir, ready to go!"
Now, "one" of you is caught in a never ending loop, while the other "you" never traveled in the first place. I’d meet and greet myself about 35 times before I was totally bored and stopped going along with the plan.
Implications? Well, if "you" are stuck living the same ten minutes over and over again (hours, years, eons, etc) you will eventually change your mind about this whole thing and out yourself on some subsequent trip. Of course, your younger self won't understand how in "just ten minutes" you've changed your mind and aren't going along with the plan. So what happens to you, after looping for a while, your younger self won't switch back? What if the younger self won't enter the temporal machine at all? Are we then stuck with two of you? And if "you" died but your doppelganger turned up tomorrow, wouldn't that look a heck of a lot like reincarnation? Theory by Albert Awol
Imagine the timeline from the rabbit's point of view. One minute you’re munching on carrots, then next you are stuck in this machine and a bright light flashes. Then you’re hopping around again oblivious to the fact that for a few minutes, your doppelganger from a few minutes ago is still eating those carrots in the next room.
And what would have happened if the two rabbits met? Nothing... but when it was time to send one back... WHAT IF YOU SENT THE WRONG ONE?
At this point the rabbits are indistinguishable, and you could easily screw up and grab the wrong rabbit for your temporal testing. Then you've got one rabbit that was never placed in the temporal device at all, and one that is looping forever in the same ten minutes over and over again. THAT is why it's so important to keep them apart; you don't want to mix them up!
Now obviously if two humans were in the same situation, you could just ask which one was which. But what if they lied? (Not that anyone ever lies on this show)
So you find out you are selected for a temporal test, to go back in time ten minutes, meet and greet yourself, and then watch as you head to the machine to travel back again. Since we are dealing with just one person and not two, collaborative lying would be easy.
Candle: "Umm, which of you two hasn't traveled yet?"
Traveler: "Me sir, ready to go!"
Now, "one" of you is caught in a never ending loop, while the other "you" never traveled in the first place. I’d meet and greet myself about 35 times before I was totally bored and stopped going along with the plan.
Implications? Well, if "you" are stuck living the same ten minutes over and over again (hours, years, eons, etc) you will eventually change your mind about this whole thing and out yourself on some subsequent trip. Of course, your younger self won't understand how in "just ten minutes" you've changed your mind and aren't going along with the plan. So what happens to you, after looping for a while, your younger self won't switch back? What if the younger self won't enter the temporal machine at all? Are we then stuck with two of you? And if "you" died but your doppelganger turned up tomorrow, wouldn't that look a heck of a lot like reincarnation? Theory by Albert Awol
