Are the people encountered in time travel the same as in the present?

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The discussion centers on the implications of time travel and the nature of encounters with individuals in the past. Participants reference Einstein's theory of relativity to argue that time is subjective, suggesting that a time traveler experiences their own timeline while others remain unaffected. The conversation raises questions about the particle composition of individuals encountered during time travel, particularly regarding the concept of self-encounter and potential annihilation due to particle-antiparticle interactions. Ultimately, the consensus is that there is no empirical evidence supporting the feasibility of time travel.

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now let's say time is relative (which it is, from einstein), now that's implies the next thing:
when someone is going back in time he's going through his own time frame while the others are in their own time frames are not affected by it (because if the other choice was correct that will assume that one man can effect all the human race which is to me unlikely).
my question are the people he encouters are the same as in the present (i mean particlewise {im asking this because there the assumption that when you encounter yourself in the past you will be destoryed from this i get that he was made out of anti particles is this the same with people})?
 
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when someone is going back in time

There is no evidence that this is possible.
 
Originally posted by mathman
There is no evidence that this is possible.

Haven't you seen Back to the Future?
 
Originally posted by mathman
There is no evidence that this is possible.
im assuming it can be done.
 
another thing about time.
let's say i go back in time in the time refrence of universe i will go back in time but my time refrence will go forward.
what do you think?
 

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