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Post by Stone on Aug 4, 2003 22:15:38 GMT -5
So, has anybody got some interesting Time Travel Paradoxes?
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Post by ZBoxDemon on Aug 4, 2003 22:21:04 GMT -5
What kind of time travel paradoxes? I know about time dialation and all that stuff about time in your reference frame slowing down compared to everyone else's as you approach the speed of light.
There is also the Grabdfather Clause, which states that if you go back in time and kill your grandfather, your father won't exist and nor will you back in the future. There is also stuff about when you time travel, and you change something there, it does not affect the future as you are in a parallel universe.
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Post by Stone on Aug 4, 2003 22:23:19 GMT -5
I mean like the Grandfather Paradox.
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Post by Kakkaraun on Aug 5, 2003 1:19:09 GMT -5
How about this...
You can't go back in time to change something because you didn't.
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Post by Stone on Aug 5, 2003 1:42:11 GMT -5
How do you know that you didn't? You may have changed something but the you in the current time doesn't know.
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Post by Kakkaraun on Aug 5, 2003 2:23:58 GMT -5
How do you know that you didn't? You may have changed something but the you in the current time doesn't know. It's usually not required, but I guess I'll post the "long" version...most people figure it out without the whole thing. "You can't go back in time and change something because you didn't. Unless you did, and in that case, you will." |
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Post by T. Wedd on Aug 5, 2003 7:06:19 GMT -5
What about my grandmother theory. If you went back in time to when your grandmother was 18, rooted her and she fell pregnant. Your daughter would be your mother.  |
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Post by Prometheus on Aug 5, 2003 23:04:22 GMT -5
The last person I thoguht that would say that Wedd, haha. What about you go back in time and live in that time zone. Then when time travel is invented (reinvented for you) you travel again back to when you were just after coming from the first zone. And you travel thru time with yourself. And you repeat the process alot then you conquer China.
Sorry I dunno where the fuck all that just came from.
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Post by Kakkaraun on Aug 6, 2003 1:19:43 GMT -5
The last person I thoguht that would say that Wedd, haha. What about you go back in time and live in that time zone. Then when time travel is invented (reinvented for you) you travel again back to when you were just after coming from the first zone. And you travel thru time with yourself. And you repeat the process alot then you conquer China. Sorry I dunno where the fuck all that just came from. Time travel as (true) cloning...interesting. How about sending some kind of suitcase nuke capable of destroying the world back in time, to the time before they invented this nuke? Then the nuke would've never been invented, thus it couldn't have been sent back in time, thus it could've been invented, et cetera. |
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Post by ZBoxDemon on Aug 6, 2003 20:19:54 GMT -5
Ahh yes, time travel and it's paradoxes. There is one where supposedly, you can travel to the past, but you can't go to the future. There is also a bizarre paradox dealing with tachyons. Tachyons theoretically travel faster than the speed of light. Therefore if you were to shoot a target with some kind of tachyon weapon, you could have hit the target before you fire the gun.
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Post by Kakkaraun on Aug 6, 2003 22:57:06 GMT -5
Ahh yes, time travel and it's paradoxes. There is one where supposedly, you can travel to the past, but you can't go to the future. There is also a bizarre paradox dealing with tachyons. Tachyons theoretically travel faster than the speed of light. Therefore if you were to shoot a target with some kind of tachyon weapon, you could have hit the target before you fire the gun. If the tachyon weapon punched a hole in the target, before you fired the gun, what would happen? The beam wouldn't have actually hit the target, so a hole wouldn't have been punched, so the beam could hit the target, so a hole would've been punched, et cetera... |
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Post by Stone on Aug 7, 2003 20:39:12 GMT -5
But Tachyons don't really travel faster than the speed of light. They shrink the space around it so they actually move at a speed below the speed of light, but move a lesser distance.
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