NP Tuesday January 23, 2024

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

 

https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/fox-052 

 

So we aren't going to see a nine year old Nanase with a thirty six year old brain?  Or a fifty four year old Nanase with a six year old brain? 

That's too bad.  I figure if she was one hundred eight years old with a three year old brain, she would be perfect for current politics. 

 

[Darth Fluffy 302]

Nanase is reluctant to try it. I can relate. It should reverse itself after a time. But what if it doesn't or it has incremental cumulative effects?

[mlooney 3,417]

While not time travel as such, changing you age sort skirts close to that.

[ijuin 572]

It is likely that transformation can change your appearance and voice to resemble a much older or younger person, but your underlying vitality/lifespan is not altered. Arthur for example could make himself look like a teenager if he chose, but it would not give him a teenager’s vitality, nor the extra fifty years of life expectancy of being an actual teenager.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

14 hours ago, mlooney said:

While not time travel as such, changing you age sort skirts close to that.

I get the sense of what you are saying, but it is not literally true. Bacteria are in a sense immortal but they do not time travel. Many die, but not from old age. They reproduce by cloning themselves.