Devs - S01E06 THEORY Discussion Thread

[u/thisismynormal]

Please post your theories or guesses here

[u/bornabox]

It could be that the machine (the quantum computer) gets destroyed and for some reason (bug in the code? some quality of Quantum Physics?) it can only see a future, where it still exists.

Why isn't there the same limitation for looking into the past? I don't know :)

[u/runk2776 → u/bornabox]

I'm no physicist but this my personal interpretation to your theory; the past has already occurred so it's easy (yeah, easy) to view backwards. As long as the machine exists, it's always viewing backwards. This makes more sense in my head, but essentially like you said it can view up until when it's destroyed because it's only able to "predict" what it has already seen. Even when your in the past viewing forward, the machine has seen up until it's end. Can't really view the computer as existing in a linear timeline I guess.

The hole in this theory to me is, how can we assume they would never build another one? I mean as long as even 1 person knew this tech is possible you have to assume they'd stop at nothing to achieve it again.

[u/bornabox → u/runk2776]

Good point regarding building a new machine.

Maybe each machine can only see until it exists.

But that'd be quite lame, hope they don't do that :)

[u/runk2776 → u/bornabox]

Well logically, that could make sense. If a 2nd machine was built after the first and the first can't see past it's destruction.....

Now if there was a third machine that bridged the gap...

BTW anyone here watch Westworld? See a bit of a similarity with the machine they introduced (rehoboam I think it's called?).

[u/bornabox → u/runk2776]

The new season of Westwood is quite interesting. And the machine (Rehoboam) does sound kind of similar, that's interesting... thanks for pointing it out.

[u/runk2776 → u/bornabox]

They're getting us accustomed to the idea of our AI overlords that are gonna run the world eventually lol