Time Travel Paradoxes
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[2012-03-31 17:02:32] phonelock2004 - ok one Question ...
ok one Question Since no man never travel back in time, then why the fuck you think your so right, no one knows for sure what the fuck will happen.
[2012-03-23 20:11:51] fatboyj182 - fuckin a... time ...fuckin a... time to go to sapling
[2012-01-03 19:04:22] SherwinGooch - Equivalently, the ...Equivalently, the universe may express and resolve this oscillating ambiguous state simply by forcing the quantum state of each of the particles comprising my grandfather (and consequently me, and other things affected by his chains of causality) back into the unobserved, uncertain quantum probability state. Think of it as "unhappening", or reclosing the box containing Schrodinger's cat. A.k.a "quantum erasure."
[2012-01-03 18:53:39] SherwinGooch - What is wrong with ...What is wrong with feedback? It was originally difficult for people to imagine in what has now become standard engineering: oscillators. When I kill my grandfather, it begins an oscillation in time: My grandfather dies, meaning I am not born, causing my grandfather not to be killed, and me to be born, etc., ad infinitum. Meaning that both my grandfather and I are only alive on the average of half the time. With a period of oscillation to be determined by quantum experiment. Equivalently (cont.)
[2011-09-27 17:28:06] Cha0sPr0ductions - Infact Martin could ...Infact Martin could have even put on an Indian acent and said "Raj's Curry House please may i take your order". Like photons time goes in every conciveable direction (and probably some that just arn't) before hitting a point that we can see. the photon being the choice the futures being the paths it takes and the point being the outcome we can see as NO Martin.
[2011-09-27 17:28:01] Cha0sPr0ductions - Infact Martin could ...Infact Martin could have even put on an Indian acent and said "Raj's Curry House please may i take your order". Like photons time goes in every conciveable direction (and probably some that just arn't) before hitting a point that we can see. the photon being the choice the futures being the paths it takes and the point being the outcome we can see as NO Martin.
[2011-09-27 17:24:00] Cha0sPr0ductions - However, these ...However, these futures still happen and the YES Martin will lead his life compleatly diffrently to NO Martin and vica versa. But In my opinion free will is an illusion due to the fact that time has already got all of the choices Martin makes allready figured out and placed. Much like a familiy, tree each choice splits into diffrent preditermaned outcomes. But the choice is up to you Martin didn't have to choose one or the other either.
[2011-09-27 17:16:01] Cha0sPr0ductions - Correct me if im ...Correct me if im wrong but if free will did not exist then why would there be another future. All futures from what I am led to belive are made due to choices. For example: Martin gets offered home insureance through telemarketing, thats where the timeline splits into two much like a fork in the road. Now if martin had no free will he would of had to choose either yes or no depending on which one he was told to or will choose and thus not making a "fork in the road".
[2011-08-05 07:35:35] VeinRPA - So say that ...So say that tomorrow, I'm the subject of a time travel experiment and the scientists want to see if a machine they built works. So they set me to go back in time 30 minutes. Wouldn't this mean that 30 minutes before I actually do the experiment, a copy of me would arrive? If so, what would happen then if 30 minutes after, they decide to send me 45 minutes back in time instead of 30. Wouldn't that make the new me that came 30 minutes earlier, nonexistent?
[2011-07-23 10:47:05] 5m1nutes - It is still 1 time ...It is still 1 time line, even if you go back in time to change things, you still have the experiences of the old one and the causes leading you to that action. It is still cause and effect thing. Otherwise you can`t be sure that the solid history is real.
[2011-07-22 01:48:54] Chucknorrisaurrus - I like that plot xDI like that plot xD
[2011-06-10 23:56:07] CrackThoseClaws - I agree with this, ...I agree with this, it's seems like the most logical answer for a universe that does not have a mind of its own and does not predetermine things in a mental way.
[2011-06-05 17:06:15] defeat2ndbeast - If you were a ...If you were a buddist, and practising Meditation to a bodhisattva level, or with the help of a budda or a bodhisattva, you will be able to time travel, Siddhārtha Gautama does not allow us to give details to non-believer, sorry.
[2011-05-27 21:35:25] CaptainWhiptastic - what you say in ...what you say in back to the future is EXACTLY what happens! but we see NEW marty time travel away as well so old marty doesnt have to kill him, but the consequences are the same
[2011-05-24 17:10:09] anticorncob6 - There are several ...There are several solutions to the grandfather paradox: 1) Free will is taken away (you aren't able to kill your grandfather) 2) Multiple world theory 3) You can only go back to events in your life time; when you go back to age 5, you have the exact same thoughts as if you were 5 4) The current time line goes, and events from the past never catch up to the present The REAL solution is similar to 2, but there exists no world where you raped someone. PM me if you want to see it.
[2011-05-24 17:02:46] anticorncob6 - There are various ...There are various CLAIMS of time travel, such as John Titor; perhaps one of them is real.
[2011-05-17 20:04:15] 2SixGraders - Paradox: Is it ...Paradox: Is it possible to kill yourself if you traveled back in time? State your theory.
[2011-05-17 19:51:10] 2SixGraders - Totally agree. I am ...Totally agree. I am currently fighting with a buddy on this very subject and he has no idea what he is talknig about.
[2011-05-09 20:42:11] mythoranium - Hey, Rob! Nice ...Hey, Rob! Nice recap from the book. I have always liked thinking about paradoxes and liked the different possible explanation theories you quoted in your book. Watching this made me remember the movie "The Primer". I think it takes the same approach on paradoxes. If you haven't yet, I urge you to see it - it has incredibly detailed (and quite complex) story about time-travel and paradoxes.
[2011-05-06 17:48:09] amjan - I still don't know ...I still don't know why we haven't had any visitors from the future yet. To avoid the granpda paradox it would obviously had to be the future of some other parallel universe. Anyway, we haven't had any. Why?
[2011-05-05 04:26:20] V3ryan - There's a different ...There's a different type of time paradox out there: Imagine you are reading in the town archives about an old barn which burned down back in the past, so you decide to go back in time to prevent it from happening. As soon as you arrive, you open the door to your time machine, and accidentally knock over an oil lamp setting the barn on fire. So it turned out that you were the one who set the barn on fire, but if that's the case, then what would cause you to travel back in time and do that 1st?
[2011-04-29 03:28:11] sanguinesurfer - hey rob, my friend ...hey rob, my friend raised a really good point in a conversation about time and the dimensions. he argues that the 4th dimension cant be time because a 3 dimensional shape can only be proved to be 3 dimensional with time. you can look at a cube from one angle, but to be sure that there are other angles to look at it from requires time. do you understand what i mean? what do you think?
[2011-04-26 23:13:05] drgonzo1103 - this is a really ...this is a really enlightening and helpful comment. and well constructed. thank you for that.
[2011-04-25 17:10:09] zachman0808 - quantum theory ...quantum theory really isn't straightforward and predictable, so our will may not be either
[2011-04-25 16:25:53] TWENTYFO5 - you have ...you have subconscious intent that shapes your future outcomes..so in essence, you do have free will--you simply are not aware of it
[2011-04-25 15:43:27] 3lements - freewill is only ...freewill is only an illusion.
[2011-04-25 05:53:20] mynameisradar - yeah i get it. its ...yeah i get it. its kind of like hop scotch. you jump a few squares fowrard, but in this instance you can't jump backwords but rather move from the square you just arrived in and jump back to the previus squares before you till you reach to your desired square.. just like the kid whoes playing the game rather him or her being younger returning back to there square they still look the same they were when they reached say at the end of the grid.
[2011-04-25 05:40:50] xtelevisionset - No. It's more ...No. It's more logical to assume that the 'new' timeline was actually always there. Remember, if it's physically possible, it already exists.
[2011-04-25 05:38:48] xtelevisionset - Time travel isn't ...Time travel isn't the same thing as rewind. It's like being on one side of a paper and folding it to appear on the opposite side of the paper without actually having walked across the paper itself. Since you cannot walk backwards to the side that you want to be on, you must fold the paper to get there. When you are there, you are still the same 'you,' but now you're over there instead of over here. Make sense?
[2011-04-25 02:45:47] bunny153649 - im only 15 yrs old ...im only 15 yrs old i feel so nerdy looking at this.
[2011-04-24 23:40:21] mynameisradar - im just curios but ...im just curios but why can't one return back to there younger selves if they were to timrravel to there past?
[2011-04-24 15:44:18] shoshanish - well, it depends on ...well, it depends on whether the universe can. if it can, then traveling bakc in time creates a new universe if you change something, but if the universe cant spilt then changing time changes ALL of it, so you did that before you did that, which you did before you did it.
[2011-04-24 13:05:53] Gyohdon - Isn't it much more ...Isn't it much more logical to assume that if Person A travels back in time, he already did so? So, if Person A's parents met up with eachother in 1980 and produced Person A a little while later, and 35 years later Person A's archnemesis (Drama is fun) Mister B travels back to 1980 to stop them from meeting, isn't it much more logical to assume that he always did and maybe even caused Person A's parents to meet up, other than create a whole new timeline. Just a thought.
[2011-04-24 12:56:30] illumined1 - @10thdim The ...@10thdim The problem with free will is that there is no beginning nor an end. You did not choose to be born, and you cannot (unless you commit suicide) choose when to die. Since free will is contingent on being alive, and *becoming* alive is not a choice - free will is just a vain word for the limitations of our perception. I feel that free will is more of the altering of one's timeline trajectory but not physically, rather one's awareness is altering itself to a different timeline - ie choice
[2011-04-23 23:28:14] CaptainFrantic - This ... because ...This ... because regardless of whether or not we have free will, we have to at least act as though we do. Also, either way we look at it, the future remains largely unknown to us and will always be a journey of discovery. But apparently, in the past ... we stole our own cookies. *cries*
[2011-04-23 23:17:14] CaptainFrantic - ahaha ... there's ...ahaha ... there's the plot of the next Star Trek movie right there. =D
[2011-04-23 22:43:44] drgonzo1103 - and of course, i am ...and of course, i am a novice who is still trying to wrap my head around any of these concepts. and you do as good a job as i've seen of explaining them in a way that i can actually begin to visualize and understand them. however, it still seems possible to me to "cut out all the fat" so to speak, and be left with a single universe, existing along a single timeline, where everyone is making their own decisions along the way.
[2011-04-23 22:40:23] drgonzo1103 - this is all very ...this is all very interesting, as usual. i would like to argue that in my own mind, the existence of free will does not necessitate the existence of all these timelines running alongside each other simultaneously... at least not as long as time travel does NOT exist. in fact, it seems perfectly reasonable for me to imagine a single, finite timeline in which everyone is constantly making their own decisions at any given moment and all these decisions are shaping the single future ahead of us.
[2011-04-23 22:32:07] mfcds - What if you built a ...What if you built a time machine to go back and eat the cookies, or worse - you exist in a timeline where an alternate you already came from the future and ate your cookies!? you could go back in time(or end up into another timeline, if you take the time-travel idea from the video) and you'll find a really fat, corrupted, evil version of you. Now it's your duty to race in time for the last jar of cookies and defeat your evil "twin". That way, you would create a new universe every time
[2011-04-23 13:15:29] CaptainFrantic - If our minds are ...If our minds are systems of pre-programmed responses (a proposition which I largely agree with) then how can our minds make independent, introspective, un-programmed decisions. It seems to me that there's a major contradiction in your reasoning right there (unless you accept dualism?). I'd really love to believe that free will exists, I really would ... but so far I've heard no argument that convinces me that it's even remotely possible. Anyway ... enjoy the journey. =)