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Spyridon wrote:I heard from somewhere that you can't go back in time as it would conflict with the laws of physics. Light can't be reversed but the change in direction can. So theoretically you can jump forward in time but you can't go back in time. You're stuck forever where you jump.

Well for the purposes of dicussing a grandfather paradox we're gonna have to assume that travelling backwards in time into the past is possible, otherwise there would be no paradox.

Also you arent stuck in the timeline you jump to, it is possible assuming you have moved a machine with you to keep jumping from timeline to timeline, each time you jump creates a new timeline essentially erasing the last as it were. Well assuming my previous posts were hitting anywhere close to the thruth anyways

I think actually recording the affects of jumping back in time is statistically impossible. Way too many factors to even consider of controlling though I have to agree that by jumping back in time, you create another alternate reality.

i used to think about this stuff alot and it just ended up making my head hurt, everything is just theory at the mo so there's no way to prove or disprove anybodies theory's, there's still sooooooooooo much we don't know about alot of things so peoples theory's change as our understanding of science progresses, really good topic tho, love reading about this sort of stuff! ~Thamuz~

Kit-Fox wrote:

Spyridon wrote:I heard from somewhere that you can't go back in time as it would conflict with the laws of physics. Light can't be reversed but the change in direction can. So theoretically you can jump forward in time but you can't go back in time. You're stuck forever where you jump.

Well for the purposes of dicussing a grandfather paradox we're gonna have to assume that travelling backwards in time into the past is possible, otherwise there would be no paradox.

Also you arent stuck in the timeline you jump to, it is possible assuming you have moved a machine with you to keep jumping from timeline to timeline, each time you jump creates a new timeline essentially erasing the last as it were. Well assuming my previous posts were hitting anywhere close to the thruth anyways

your not really creating anything.. time occurs concurently.. so you can't erase anything either

Well essentially you are correct Thriller what I said makes it a little easier to grasp with I know strictly speaking you cant do that but thinking about it like that makes it less of a headache

Or at least it does for me because it stops you from worrying to much about effects on timelines you have previously visited. Especially as once you leave a timeline you can never go back to that exact same timeline again, even if you return it will be different. Therefore thinking a timeline is erased/destroyed when you leave it helps to avoid all the worries of multiple effects etc etc. Assuming you see what I mean?

sammael wrote:
example of a paradox:

you go back in time and kill your grandfather (before he had offspring) could you because if you killed him he wouldnt of giveing brith to your father/mother which in trun didnt give brith to you which means you couldnt of killed him.

Seeing as time travel itself is absurd already, .. There is no paradox.