Kasreyn,May 23 2003, 12:12 AM Wrote:If you went back in time with the purpose of proving me wrong and murdering your ancestor, something would happen to stop you.So you're now suggesting that not only is time travel possible, there is some sort of power that stops you from doing anything that would create a paradox.
*cough cough*
I'm sorry, that's a little too far-fetched for me (even in a thread about time travel). Particularly since that paradox you're refering to is far more complicated that simply "killing your ancestor."
Each and every individual person is affect by every person they meet; every event they witness; everything that happens to them. A person changing ANY event in the past would alter things not only for their future selves; not only for everyone they met while in the past; not only for everyone those people ever met... etc. It's a ripple effect. It's the idea that if you go back and squash an insect, in the future Germany wins the second world war. Sure, it seems a little ridiculous, but forget about big changes -- even tiny changes are paradoxes. Why?
We're talking about time travel. So if anyone in the future EVER went back in time, he'd already have been in the past. So those changes would be made, but would then affect the future, thus changing the present the time traveller left from.
See what I mean?
gekko
<<edit: for those of you using linear view, my second post was a reply to a seperate post; sorry for the confusion >>
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