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Time Travel is a relatively feasible concept in which one simply travels from the present to the past/future. It is hypothesized to be possible, it should technically be achievable considering time dilation and/or wormholes could be manipulated/exploited to the point that something like time travel happened
So let's say you could time travel, to around- a time before your grandfather had any kids. Maybe when he was a young adult.
What if... you killed him? What would happen to you?
Well- this is called the Grandfather paradox, and it would be one of the biggest flaws in time travel if time travel was achievable.
If you killed your Grandfather- you should vanish and so should any family below him. Right?
Well, that's a really tricky concept and it is very hard to conceive.
So- you couldn't just vanish- because where would your matter go if you just vanished out of thin air? That would evidently break the Law of Conservation of Energy/Matter. Could you return to your present time?
Another thing you must understand is that if you were murder you Grandfather in his youth, you would also ruin any things he could've done in the future that would have been drastic towards society, for example, if your grandfather was... Lee Harvey Oswald, and you murdered him at a very young age- what contributions could JFK have further made to society if he were to live his live devoid of a fatal assassination?
It's something to think about, or is it?
So let's say you could time travel, to around- a time before your grandfather had any kids. Maybe when he was a young adult.
What if... you killed him? What would happen to you?
Well- this is called the Grandfather paradox, and it would be one of the biggest flaws in time travel if time travel was achievable.
If you killed your Grandfather- you should vanish and so should any family below him. Right?
Well, that's a really tricky concept and it is very hard to conceive.
So- you couldn't just vanish- because where would your matter go if you just vanished out of thin air? That would evidently break the Law of Conservation of Energy/Matter. Could you return to your present time?
Another thing you must understand is that if you were murder you Grandfather in his youth, you would also ruin any things he could've done in the future that would have been drastic towards society, for example, if your grandfather was... Lee Harvey Oswald, and you murdered him at a very young age- what contributions could JFK have further made to society if he were to live his live devoid of a fatal assassination?
It's something to think about, or is it?
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uve been watching to many tv shows buddy
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You can't go backwards in time through time dilation you can only go forwards since as you get towards the speed of light time slows relative to you. However the speed and force required to do this in a timely matter would either kill you from acceleration or you would die of old age before any massive could be seen.
If we could some how manage to go back in time through worm holes you could kill your father or what ever, you just wouldn't be born in that time line/universe.
If we could some how manage to go back in time through worm holes you could kill your father or what ever, you just wouldn't be born in that time line/universe.
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Yes, but the problem with your theory is that, you are considering being able to go back in time. However, if one were to travel through a wormhole, time slows down around them, however they travel far in time. This being said, in movies traveling back just does the exact opp. It is like a time portal. Besides, if you didn't know, time isn't a tangible thing, it is a human concept. Time isn't real. In fact, this is proven in that the way we calculate time here on earth, in the same way, if we did this on Saturn, their days wouldn't make 24 hours. Time isn't tangible. Therefore going back in time is theoretically improbable/impossible.
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GrayWolf wrote Yes, but the problem with your theory is that, you are considering being able to go back in time. However, if one were to travel through a wormhole, time slows down around them, however they travel far in time. This being said, in movies traveling back just does the exact opp. It is like a time portal. Besides, if you didn't know, time isn't a tangible thing, it is a human concept. Time isn't real. In fact, this is proven in that the way we calculate time here on earth, in the same way, if we did this on Saturn, their days wouldn't make 24 hours. Time isn't tangible. Therefore going back in time is theoretically improbable/impossible.
Well, time and space are relative with each other, which is from the theory of relativity.
Time isn't a concept considering it can be manipulated, there is obvious proof of such. If you run around your friends house, whilst he is inside that house sitting down, you will be older than him by about 1 femtosecond, just because you did that.
What you're saying is that since you can't touch an idea, that means it isn't real. That's incorrect though, ideas are what hold up our society.
Time is both a dimension, and a concept, but it absolutely is a real thing. Once again, just because you can't touch something doesn't mean it's not real.
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think of this, if you mudered your grandfather in his youth, and you then was to never exist would or wouldnt your grandfather still be alive because you wouldnt have been there to kill him? / one thing that has always struck my mind in the thought of time travel
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A few questions I have over time travel:
1. What happens to you if you kill your Grandfather? What if other dimensions come into play somehow? for example, an algorithm for detecting faults within the universe and correcting them somehow which might prove we're in a computer simulation much like The Sims or The Matrix
2. If you did travel back in time, would you get younger as you go further back, limiting you to your birth year (obviously) or do you go back as you are now, enabling you to go back to any period?
3. Can you travel further back then before the time machine was built? interesting question there.
4. Is manipulation of time travel in a meaningful way possible at all outside of TV or Cinema?
1. What happens to you if you kill your Grandfather? What if other dimensions come into play somehow? for example, an algorithm for detecting faults within the universe and correcting them somehow which might prove we're in a computer simulation much like The Sims or The Matrix
2. If you did travel back in time, would you get younger as you go further back, limiting you to your birth year (obviously) or do you go back as you are now, enabling you to go back to any period?
3. Can you travel further back then before the time machine was built? interesting question there.
4. Is manipulation of time travel in a meaningful way possible at all outside of TV or Cinema?
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RIAA wrote A few questions I have over time travel:
1. What happens to you if you kill your Grandfather? What if other dimensions come into play somehow? for example, an algorithm for detecting faults within the universe and correcting them somehow which might prove we're in a computer simulation much like The Sims or The Matrix
If you were to travel back in time to kill your grandfather in the past, Oneself would remain unharmed and untouched as you are already in existence seperate from any other version of yourself. However this is assuming that life is not a computer simulation.
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2. If you did travel back in time, would you get younger as you go further back, limiting you to your birth year (obviously) or do you go back as you are now, enabling you to go back to any period?
Once again we are assuming life is not a computer simulation. No. as you are already in existence separate from any other version of yourself, Your cells would continue to die normally.
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3. Can you travel further back then before the time machine was built? interesting question there.
This is debatable depending on how the machine is created and how it achieves Time Travel.
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4. Is manipulation of time travel in a meaningful way possible at all outside of TV or Cinema?
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking here
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I believe you can go in the future but not in the past
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TTKModz wrote uve been watching to many tv shows buddy
Yes He has You Took My Words Out Of My mouth
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