Why time travel produces delay in future of Dragon Ball super

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Why time travel produces delay in future of Dragon Ball super

Post by Lupin879 » Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:36 pm

Why time travel produces delay in future of Dragon Ball super


In future arc, when Trunks was fighting Black Goku in future, he was buying time for Goku and Vegeta to prepare in present.

Goku and Vegeta took 'x' days to prepare and till that time future Trunks defended them.

My question is why Goku and Vegeta didn't joined Trunks at the time exactly equal to when they left?

E.g.

Right now we are @ 1 a.m.

Future Trunks is @ 7 a.m.

Goku and vegeta returned to 1 a.m. from 7 a.m. for practicing.

They practiced for 3 hours.

As per anime, they returned @ 10 a.m.

Why?

Why weren't they able to return @ 7 a.m. that is exactly when they left future?

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Re: Why time travel produces delay in future of Dragon Ball super

Post by emperior » Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:56 pm

In the future, time continues to flow while they are in the present. If they were to return to where they left, they would have created a new timeline.
This rule doesn't seem to apply when travelling back in time because Trunks in DBZ was able to go 3 years in the future of the timeline he created, while only 8 months passed in his time. It might be because of Future Bulma grasping time travel better than her past self.
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Re: Why time travel produces delay in future of Dragon Ball super

Post by Lupin879 » Fri Mar 24, 2017 4:06 pm

But someone says something about it?

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Post by Pluto » Fri Mar 24, 2017 4:52 pm

Yes, Whis clearly states it, and bulma even details it saying how you cant change the configuration of the device, and has to follow the time flows at both sides
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Post by Lupin879 » Fri Mar 24, 2017 5:20 pm

Pluto wrote:Yes, Whis clearly states it, and bulma even details it saying how you cant change the configuration of the device, and has to follow the time flows at both sides
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Post by Hakaishin Saitama » Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:09 pm

Lupin879 wrote:
Pluto wrote:Yes, Whis clearly states it, and bulma even details it saying how you cant change the configuration of the device, and has to follow the time flows at both sides
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I'm pretty sure this was the explanation from the manga Bulma. I don't recall her saying anything like that in the anime.

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Post by AvatarReiko » Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:32 am

Pluto wrote:Yes, Whis clearly states it, and bulma even details it saying how you cant change the configuration of the device, and has to follow the time flows at both sides
Bulma is wrong. It's a contradiction/plot hole Toyotaro created. Geekdom addresses it one of his videos. When Trunks returned to the future to recharge the time machine, he didn't have to wait 3 years in his own time to pass. He simply set his TM "3 years later" in the present

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Re: Why time travel produces delay in future of Dragon Ball super

Post by TobyS » Sat Mar 25, 2017 7:36 pm

AvatarReiko wrote:
Pluto wrote:Yes, Whis clearly states it, and bulma even details it saying how you cant change the configuration of the device, and has to follow the time flows at both sides
Bulma is wrong. It's a contradiction/plot hole Toyotaro created. Geekdom addresses it one of his videos. When Trunks returned to the future to recharge the time machine, he didn't have to wait 3 years in his own time to pass. He simply set his TM "3 years later" in the present
They talk about the link between the two timelines weakening, my headcanon is that the “you must maintain the same differential” as a result of that, plus that other dude aboves theory about Future Bulma having better skills.
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Re: Why time travel produces delay in future of Dragon Ball super

Post by Basako » Sun Mar 26, 2017 9:13 am

The link that the time machine has between the two timelines is very weak now, so the time that they spend in one passes in the other too. This wasn't the case before, as we have two examples of changing the amount of time. First when Trunks returned after three years, without him waiting that long. The other when Cell stole the machine and travelled back much more than 17 years. He changed the settings somehow, I guess accidentally.
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