Can Time Travel Solve Paradoxes and Alter Personal Histories?

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The discussion revolves around the concept of time travel and its implications for altering past events and personal histories. Participants explore various paradoxes associated with time travel, including the potential for changing the future and its effects on the past, as well as the philosophical and theoretical aspects of these changes.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants propose a scenario where a time traveler can change the past, which could lead to a paradox being resolved if another traveler intervenes.
  • Others question whether changes made to the future would be recognized by anyone, suggesting a lack of awareness about alterations.
  • A participant contends that the present cannot be altered by changes made to the past, arguing that certain events, like a time traveler slaying their own father, would be impossible.
  • Another viewpoint suggests that timelines could split, resulting in separate chains of events following a change.
  • Some participants express curiosity about the implications of time travel on historical events, such as assisting significant figures in history.
  • There are discussions about the cyclical nature of time and the potential for being trapped in a time loop.
  • Several posts shift focus to ancient civilizations and their understanding of time, suggesting connections to time travel concepts.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

The discussion contains multiple competing views regarding the nature of time travel, the possibility of altering past events, and the implications of such changes. No consensus is reached on these topics.

Contextual Notes

Participants express various assumptions about time travel mechanics, including the nature of timelines and the effects of changes on personal histories. Some arguments rely on speculative scenarios without resolving the underlying complexities.

Who May Find This Useful

This discussion may interest those exploring theoretical physics, philosophy of time, and the implications of time travel in both scientific and cultural contexts.

  • #31
To me, time travel in the past that allows intervention as opposed to mere observation is absurd. It creates the potential for ultimate uncertainty which leads me to fully disregard any notion of it.
 
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  • #32
Pallidin i have taken your comment on board and that is why i have been working on the "Ethic of time travel" for the past two years.

I also have been working on it piratically as well for seven years now.

Most of the theory i have been working on has worked on a normal time line.

The question is will my theory work if time travel is ever achieved?

And will anyone want to work with my theory's on time travel?

Or am i just wasting my time?
 
  • #33
In a sense, one time-travels every time they look upon the evening stars, as most which one see's has occurred ten's, hundreds, thousands, or often many millions of years before. The night sky, as one see's it, is actually dramatically different in reality, as the stars you look at are really not actually at that place, and may not even now exist.
This is observational time travel of the past.
 
  • #34
time is a one-way street. you can't go back.

you must have been subjected to some horrible trauma in your life if you're working towards the goal of going back to change things.

my condolences.
 
  • #35
  • #36
what does that mean? "finish up in the past"

doesn't sound like you're a native english speaker and i don't want to make any assumptions as to what you truly mean by that (and thus insult your intellegence)

usually theories are more than just a sentence, by the way... :D
 
  • #37
Hello JoeWade

My meaning to finish up in the past.
Past in the tense of past, present and future.

My intelligence is limited to what i have been able to come up with so far with what has been placed into my brain.

My intelligence is only as good as the past of this world.

The rest i have made up based on that.

My spelling can be real bad as well as my grammar at time i guess all i am doing here is throwing out some suggestion if they help someone come up with something that changes the world then I'm happy to place them here for free use.

If my ideas and theory's make people laugh then that's good as well.
I just hope one day time travel is real and my real passion comes true.
" The Ethics of time travel" i have been working on for 7 years works when and if time travel ever happens.
 
  • #38
well if you truly mean to travel forward until you somehow magically appear "in the past" you can forget that thought.

time is linear ratcheting forwards. there is no means by which one can "undo" events that have already taken place. By Cryogenics or Superluminal travel you could come to stasis while the universe experiences time without you, but in such a state you cannot take part in what is happening around you.

the ethics of time travel sounds like a good fiction work, I'm sure people will enjoy it

good luck to you
 
  • #39
Hi Joe,

Welcome to the madness. Theory development is a test of ideas. Try to argue politely. Not that you haven't. Just be patient. Is easy to get impatient here.
 
  • #40
JoeWade I'm glad you question what i say.

Do you need proof and if you had the proof who would believe you?

I do not have proof that time travel into the past is possible but I'm working on it.

I'm here to talk with people who have the same interest as me because i cannot talk to people i work with they would think I'm off the rails like you think i am by thinking time travel may or may not happen.

Thanks for reading what i have to say i hope its not to radical for you.

I'm not trying to change the past or future only an application for time travel if it ever happens.
 
  • #41
I time travel on a daily basis. Just ask me tomorrow what I did today.
 
  • #42
Chronos tag your it catch me if you can you win.
 
  • #43
11:11 Thw Two Suns.

Here we go.

Best Regards
Dj Blair Styles
11:11

Is there a relationship between time travel and 11:11?
 
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  • #44
The only true time is NOW. As we consider the past, it remains as such... only a consideration. The past is static. The future, not yet realized, is unknown. Most importantly, the NOW is dynamic.
 
  • #45
I think everything happens all at the same time.

Past present and future.

11:11
 

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