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well, hypothetically, if time travel were possible, and you went back in time and killed yourself. what would happen? |
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yes but if he was to deissapear (i.e. never been born in the first place) then there would be noone to stop them from kissing which would mean time would go on as normal and he would still be born, which means he could still go back in time to mess things up so he would dissapear.... but that cycle would carry on in an infinite loop |
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I think I remember hearing somthing about the actual answer. I think it's that you can kill your past self, but your present self still exists. Which I could imagine the most as actually happening. But then what about all the stuff that you did from the point that you were killed to the point that you went back in to actually kill youself? Like if you would have set your car on fire the next day after you were killed by yourself, would your car still exist when you went back to the future? But I have read a few books that mention something about time, past, and future all being ilusions and the only thing that is constant and exists always is the present. |
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I don't think that there is a definitive answer other than that time travel leads to the paradox that you've brought up in a classical universe. If one goes to the quantum multiverse interpretation of things, then when you go back into your past and kill yourself, time starts moving along an essentially different path in which you don't exist but the path that you came from still exists in the "universal quantum superposition". If it could ever get falsifiable, the multiverse ontology of QM would make a lot of problems like that disappear. |
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Well, the fact is time travel (in the sense you mean; going into the past) is impossible, so it's a bit of a non-issue. It's like asking 'if it were possible to turn gravity off, wouldn't that make it possible to violate the first law of thermodynamics?'. Well yes, but you can't turn gravity off. |
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It's simple. You cannot go back in time and kill yourself. If, for the purpose of this problem, say that there is exactly one timeline we move back and forth along when traveling, you have to deal with self-consistency. If you tried to pull out a gun and shoot yourself, the gun would jam, or you would get distracted, or your past self would survive the shot. If you went back to fix the gun or take care of the distraction, something else would happen to stop you from doing that. The odds of you being able to cause a paradox will be exactly zero. The general idea is, for you to be able to do something in the past, it would have to have always been that way. |
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That's kind of a cop-out. It creates a paradox in itself, because there's really no reason that you shouldn't be able to kill an ancestor once you've gone back in time. It suggests there'd be some mysterious force guiding you to stop you breaking logic... |
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again, this is all just hypothetical. |
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It will always be impossible to travel in time. I don't know how anyone has ever believed this is possible. It's a fun idea, but whoever takes it seriously is a horrible thinker. |
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you are travelling through time at about the speed of light at this moment. You're just moving forward through it |
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He was responding to Michael saying that it is impossible to travel in time, which it clearly isn't. It is also possible to travel at different speeds, as has been empirically verified. |
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It was in response to what micheal said. It's a valid point though. People that say time travel is impossible really don't know what they are talking about. I'm not saying that reverse time travel is possible, I would just like an explanation of why it is impossible. My opinion is that it has something to do with the second law of thermodynamics being more fundamental than we've thus far given it credit for as that is pretty much the only thing about physics that isn't time reversible. |
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yeah.. it would be "like" that. have you ever jumped into a copy of our universe? No... it would be like that, but that isn't time travel. the normal time travel would be disappearing, and re-appearing in the same universe, at another time. not in a different universe... you're making up different shit. which would be actual travel, not TIME travel. |
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The other universe would be the current one, at a different time, though. |
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i heard that if you travel closer to the speed of light, you go forward in time (well, it appears to do so). but i really dont know about back in time, the only way i can think of is going faster than the speed of light which is impossible anyway so thats no use. |
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Yes that is correct, the faster you travel, the faster time flows for stationary things. |
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How do you figure? Time never changes... it is just there... its not really even a thing.... |
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