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slowmutant
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Aaron_Mason
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A lot of people are saying that there are several paradoxes to time travel, i.e. killing your father before you were born, becoming your own grandfather (like Fry did in Futurama), trying to prevent disaster.
There are two ways to look at this, one I've seen covered in similar detail, the rest was a case of TLDR.
One way is that whatever has been changed has already happened and nothing we can do will make it better because if we go back to change it, we would in fact be helping it happen.
The other way is that of parallel universes or alternate timelines, depending on the context. I believe that every decision we make breaks the universe up into several different paths, each one exploring the implications that making the decision differently would entail. Say if you decided not to go for a drive, in another universe you would have decided to go for a drive, and were perhaps killed in an accident. If you go back in time and change something, it is possible that you would return to your time to a completely different world, because the timeline you are now on has progressed differently to how it did before you went back. Whether you would go on existing if you killed a member of your progeny is as yet an unresolved issue.
That's my two cents.
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slowmutant
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 6:51 am Post subject: |
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I rather like the idea of different quantum realities.
They did a TNG episode of that. It was boss. |
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