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4/25/2012 4:55:11 AM
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If you go back in time and kill yourself.
That means you die.
If you die before you were able to go back in time and kill yourself, you never get the chance to go back in time and kill yourself, and as such, you are alive.
Would that mean that nothing you did would hurt your younger self?
[Edited on 04.24.2012 8:55 PM PDT]
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That's why time traveling to the past is impossible.
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going back in time is impossible.
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...and thus the TV show Fringe was born.
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[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me-WHitlw8A] relevant [/url]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] capitonRender007 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Cortland_Brewer That means you die. If you die before you were able to go back in time and kill yourself, you never get the chance to go back in time and kill yourself, and as such, you are alive. Would that mean that nothing you did would hurt your younger self?[/quote] /facepalm Alternate timelines, or direct paradox.[/quote] What if there are no alternative timelines and only a single, internally consistent timeline?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Cortland_Brewer That means you die. If you die before you were able to go back in time and kill yourself, you never get the chance to go back in time and kill yourself, and as such, you are alive. Would that mean that nothing you did would hurt your younger self?[/quote] /facepalm Alternate timelines, or direct paradox.
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You would probably enter an alternate timeline when you go back, so there are no paradoxes
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Why would i kill myself? Might have to kill you instead. Damned paradoxical questions.
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"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but [i]actually[/i] from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... [i]stuff."[/i] [Edited on 04.25.2012 7:20 AM PDT]
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1. Go into another universe that's in the past. 2. Kill yourself with no effect on your universe. 3. ??? 4. Profit.
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Here's a better question. If you went back in time and killed yourself. Would it be homicide or suicide?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] WolfmanMaverick Timelines, how do they work?[/quote]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] WolfmanMaverick Timelines, how do they work?[/quote] they dont exist, thats how.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] dahuterschuter [url=http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/08/ajb/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Novikov_self-consistency_principle.html]Novikov self consistency principle, how does it work?[/url][/quote] This is what I've been telling people regarding time-travel talk for all these years... *sniff* Thanks for the link bro
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Cortland_Brewer That means you die. If you die before you were able to go back in time and kill yourself, you never get the chance to go back in time and kill yourself, and as such, you are alive. Would that mean that nothing you did would hurt your younger self?[/quote] What if? You went back in time while you were still a virgin and raped yourself? That would mean you would kave taken your own virginity right?
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Ming=blown
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Cortland_Brewer That means you die. If you die before you were able to go back in time and kill yourself, you never get the chance to go back in time and kill yourself, and as such, you are alive. Would that mean that nothing you did would hurt your younger self?[/quote]Fail, the moment you go back in time you don't exist. you can kill your self and take the place. so get it right. ok.
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And thus we learned that humanity should never learn the secrets of time travel.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Cortland_Brewer [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] petitminou Lrn2notparadox[/quote] I know it's a paradox, but if we can travel through time, we could theoretically create one, and I want to know what would happen.[/quote] I don't think changing the past would really alterate the future. IMO parrallel universe, I would just steal everything and go back home.
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Well, that just means you really wanted to kill yourself, just at a younger age.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] AaronG67 But, when you think about it, that would mean that the traveller would have already tried to kill the grandfather, and failed. So he'll fail this time, too.[/quote]Except replace "The grandfather" with "his younger self." Almost the same thread three times in three days? *Sigh*
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Corporate Action So if you go back in time, and are now in Timeline B instead of Timeline A, does that mean if you go forward in time after going back in time ( and end up in Timeline B), you can't get back to Timeline A?[/quote] Yes, You will just go forward in time in timeline B You can only get back to timeline A if you live in the 5th dimension. [Edited on 04.25.2012 5:34 AM PDT]
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So if you go back in time, and are now in Timeline B instead of Timeline A, does that mean if you go forward in time after going back in time ( and end up in Timeline B), you can't get back to Timeline A? [Edited on 04.25.2012 5:32 AM PDT]
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Sigh. Guess who doesn't understand timeline and predetermined paradoxes.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Omega 343 There's no such thing as "time" it is made up to help organized our life[/quote] But it is a thing. Its been proven that gravity slows down time, hence why you age faster and clocks more faster in space. [Edited on 04.25.2012 4:48 AM PDT]
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When you went back in time, you created an alternate reality. You dont exist in this reality anymore (because you killed yourself) but you go on normally in your original reality, Up to the point that you went back.
