09-22-2003, 04:25 PM
I don't believe in time travel per se as much as I do believe in travelling to parallel universes who are differentiated by some unknown time interval.
For example, you're not _really_ travelling 100 years into the past - you're actually travelling to a parallel universe where everything is absolutely identical except that the clock is slow by 100 years.
That way you can do whatever you want, including meeting yourself, killing yourself, etc and it will have no effect on the "real" you. When you return to your original "timeline", you will not perceieve any changes, but if instead you "returned" to a different original "timeline" in which 100 years previously someone had killed your ancestor the you in _that_ timeline would not exist and nobody would know who you were or have any record of you.
It's kinda funky, but avoids the grandfather paradox.
For example, you're not _really_ travelling 100 years into the past - you're actually travelling to a parallel universe where everything is absolutely identical except that the clock is slow by 100 years.
That way you can do whatever you want, including meeting yourself, killing yourself, etc and it will have no effect on the "real" you. When you return to your original "timeline", you will not perceieve any changes, but if instead you "returned" to a different original "timeline" in which 100 years previously someone had killed your ancestor the you in _that_ timeline would not exist and nobody would know who you were or have any record of you.
It's kinda funky, but avoids the grandfather paradox.