So I've watched a couple videos and I think I have a pretty firm handle on the plot structure of Primer, but I'm still confused about some of the details about time travel.
Suppose it's 4:59pm and you're planning to enter the box at 5pm with the intent of getting out at 9am. You have a double (subjectively, you two minutes from now) in the box, travelling backward. How do you get in the box? Your double won't "vanish" from the outside perspective until after you get in, since every instant you're outside the box, you have to relive while inside it, just travelling backwards. This seems to me to cause problems for the actual physical act of entering the chamber -- you'd need to somehow physically merge with your double, which sounds like it'd probably be fatal for both versions of you. This is never mentioned in the film.
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