Is there any feasible real sounding science sci-fi explanation for a chronovisor?
What would be able to explain a visor like device that can see the past or future? I'm trying to make it as little as clarketech as possible. Any ideas?
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I upvote a4's wormhole tech; but note that a wormhole could be small enough (atom sized or molecule sized) to just let a stream of photons through.
In such a case, the visor is just a regular LCD display; the real scifi tech is a mechanism moving the atom-sized wormhole in the fourth dimension to change the stream of photons being received.
I would also note that seeing a "one and only" future, as opposed to "the most probable" future, would create an inherent paradox. If there is only one possible future (Einstein's Block Universe, also Newton's implied belief), then observing it and being aware of it cannot change anything at all about how the observer thinks or acts. They cannot act to change the one and only future, even to avoid their own death. The future cannot be changed for the same reason your past cannot be changed without producing a different "you".
So if anybody sees the one and only future, they were destined to see it and seeing it is part of the prerequisite for making what they saw come to pass.
Either that, or the future is malleable and all we can see (like we already do, albeit with some error, using our brains) is possible futures, and preferably the most likely of them.
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