What's up with Teal'c?

[anna_sg1]

Okey, so my friend watched the excellence that is "Unending" the other night, and asked an interesting question. Or maybe, it was interesting to me... coz I don't know the answer. :)

Anyway, he asked what happened to the "young" Teal'c when the "old" one traveled back in time to give Sam the crystal?!

Naturally, I have no idea. I just remembered

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[spiletta42]

Okay, I'm going to try to not get too technical, and actually make sense. Here we go: The ship is stuck in a time bubble. Carter makes a new time bubble around Teal'c. Then she makes the big time bubble go backwards, after first exploding. Teal'c, not being in the backwards-moving bigger time bubble on account of being in his own tiny little time bubble, does not experience the few seconds forward, or the explosion, or the backwards moving. Therefore, there IS no Teal'c in the big bubble, so there is no Teal'c on the ship in the moment before Carter hits the button. Except, of course, the Teal'c in the little bubble, which then expels Teal'c back into the real universe and real time, and he changes everything.

At no time is there two of anyone, which would create a paradox. Since time-travel isn't real, and the theories that relate to it are many, it tends to work differently in different fictional universes.

Also note that anything in the little bubble with Teal'c could have survived, even if the object represents an event that never happened for the rest of the team, or the rest of the universe. Daniel or Vala or any of them could have snuck a note or a picture into his pocket . . .

This is prime stuff for fic, folks. :)

[anna_sg1]

Okey... :) I still don't get it, but thanx for trying.... and oh how I wish they *did* stuck Teal'c a note or a picture! *sigh* Maybe the one from the X-mas dinner/party they had!

I still don't understand whay can't he tell them what happened during those 50 years... poor guys gonna go nuts. I would. *hugs Teal'c*

[anuna_81]

Hon, that's why it called time travel, you can't tell! Not that I know what I'm talking 'bout but I like talking!

Yeah a picture would be great!