What if Entire World stuck in TIME LOOP? 🔃

[CAOMouse]

• You know the story, main character stuck in time loop, at midnight, the day reset, he wakes up with full memory. But what if this time, entire world can remember what happen, and this time loop is forever?
• There are many things I want to know:
• How will people react? At loop 1? How about at loop 1 billion?
• Meaning of life? Goal? Endless suffering? Endless bliss? Mindless?
• Limit of what we can do in 1 day? Limit of memory? Limit of everything related to human? (Since we are so aware of ourselves after long time in human body)
• How to carry large information through time loop? If every paper is erased after midnight?
• Super power? What kind of ability that human can develop after infinite time loop (It related to brain, and human limit)
• With infinite time, can we be everything? Will there be any special phenomenon related to this "be everything" concept?

[theyrebothakilogram]

Sorry this isn't necessarily answer the question but, this reminded me of this

[sushy00]

But if they know, they can respond to it differently then? Then they can change it too, there wouldn't be a time loop anymore?

[CAOMouse]

There's no cause, the time loop just happen, and it will happen forever, nothing can stop it, but we can still try to stop it. What do you think human would do in this situation?

[CAOMouse]

I think there will be people that pretend they don't have memory to trick other people. Maybe because they want to control other, or just for fun ^^
In the beginning, there's no proof that the entire world can remember what happen in each time loop.

[Katzalcoatl]

Actually there is a scientific theory that our universe is basically in a time loop. One theory suggests it expands and then retracts. When it finishes retracting a new big bang occurs.

If you are wondering what would happen to the human brain if humans kept getting information. The brain would get full. The human brain has a limit capacity to the information it can store.

As to the meaning of life it would remain the same.
Life is meaningless and the only meaning life has is what we decide to give it.
In other words, be happy and enjoy life.

[darthmongoose]

I imagine people, as soon as they understood that 1. Time is looping and 2. Everyone else is aware that time is looping and everyone keeps their memories from all previous loops. Would start coming up with ways to cope.

I mean... it's not without advantages. You're functionally immortal, and if you're lucky enough to have an okay living situation, food available for that one day, access to a shop that had whatever you wanted in stock that day, then... it could be kind of awesome? You never have to worry about money, or the long term effects of anything you do. The downside is... nobody else does either and so a lot of people wouldn't want to drive busses, open the supermarket, maintain the internet etc.

I imagine people would probably busy themselves with things like opening supermarkets to let everyone access stuff, at least once the novelty of not having to wore off... but probably nobody would care about taking money for anything, it'd be just like "yeah, help yourselves". People would probably start organising a lot of group activities for fun, like parties, sports and the like.

Because the only way to record information becomes a person's memory, being good at memorising information would become extremely important and respected. I imagine people would use a lot of mnemonic techniques like poetry to remember things between loops.

[Katzalcoatl]

The internet would not need maintenance for a day.
So that would remain the same especially since it resets at loop start.
But you make a good point about supermarkets being left alone by employees.

I think people would eventually get bored and new entertainment would arise each day.
Once that is out of their systems they will probably return to work. They were already in a loop anyway since that is human life (wake up-> go to work ->sleep -> repeat).

After several hundred loops humans would start forgetting stuff. Like I mentioned before the human brain has a limit capacity to the amount of information it can handle/store.

[LostKelp]

Yall know in this scenario, no-one can die right? Everyone with a sickness or other ailment will always have that sickness - not to mention pregnancy, oh god - also, food would be meaningless. Because unless you were on the brink of starving to death you could go through the day and reset to a point before starvation. No houses would ever be completed, no books, no movies (no webcomics...) everyone would be stuck in the immediate area because travel takes too long. Basically, everyone's actions would become only as meaningful as much as everyone else remembering it. Would children's minds age as their bodies continue in their eternal youth? Would babies develop consciousness in bodies that arent buit for it?

@Katzalcoatl why would anyone return to work? New resources will never be used, services will never be finished the ownership of a product is never finalized - unless like people claim ownership beyond each internal loop which I think is wack.

It's pretty easy to imagine the world spiraling into existential horror, but then again, people can find meaning anywhere. I think that as much as we can imagine how awful it would be to live forever, in reality I think it would be fine. In a time loop things are complicated by the fact that nothing can change, but then again the people can, where they wake up and their bodies don't but who they are does.

This actually would be pretty interesting as a story - dammit forums, I came here to procrastinate on my creative projects not start new ones.

[Katzalcoatl]

People will return to a rutine they know as a means to escape reality. It wouldn't be permanent but it is a human mechanism to try to deny reality when something happens that their mind can't handle.
And I am pretty sure looping each day while everything resets classifies as something the human mind can't handle.

[candiedcotton]

I think we'd devolve into something like The Purge, but endlessly. It'd be a lawless world where consequences don't exist, after all.

[Katzalcoatl]

Could be. It is hard to say. There would be some consequences since everyone would remember. So if you kill they might kill you the next loop but overall it would be a lawless zone.

It would suck for sick people since they would live sick forever.

My question now is... would doctors keep working? Morally they should but would they? Or would only a few remain while the rest quit?

[Ladyofbirds]

A lot of people would go crazy, but not all at the same time. Grudges might work differently, because would you care that someone killed you 100,000 loops ago when 100s of other people have killed you since then?

That said I would feel the worst for the people who are forced to have to repeat the same events each time. Having to repeat dying of old age while bedridden, going through childbirth, or experiencing any other traumatic medical situation every time would be incomprehensible.

[TheLemmaLlama]

I'd imagine people would give up on long-term projects like building stuff or writing stuff, because all physical material would be reset in a day anyway. Instead, we'd focus more on talking to other people, because the memories of others would be the only thing that matters in the long run - the only way to leave a legacy into the 'future' XD

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