in a specific space-time continuum the time traveller does (in his own freewill according to the circumstances) what in fact happens at that point in time. I also think there’s no freewill violation here, like I was trying to argue.
oh, OK. Point made.
Well, I don't believe that history can be changed. I don't think time paradoxes are possible and that's why I thought up of the whole timeline thing, I was trying to rationalize IF you could change things, then how would it work?
My belief was if you go back in time and kill yourself either...
Thank you selfAdjoint, that is also what I was thinking about Kaku's theory after reading Hyperspace. I myself have not seen the theory I presented elsewhere, even in fiction. (I'll have to check this out Lord Dunsany to see how portrayed it). I have seen it posted elsewhere on the internet, but...
I believe that IF multiple timelines exist, than it is how you described because I have long held to that opinion myself. It tends to be too overly drawn out and complicated, though, so I tend to believe that time itself has already happened and that if time travel is possible that we cannot...
I am curious as to others' beliefs/opinions on how time travel and/vs. multiverse theory correlate.
Theory/Question 1. If you could go back in time and try to alter an event, could it turn out that you can't change it and are actually only helping history along it's course...
But this raises some questions about free will, right?
I don't think so. It seems to me that ambient is saying the same thing as spacestar. To the best of my understanding, you're both saying that outside of parellel universe created by intervention in time, if time travel is possible than...
Actuallu ambient, the original Terminator film(not the last two) had a pretty good interpretation of time travel if it's possible: you can't change it, but reinforce it.