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The Grandfather Paradox
Something that's been on my mind for sometime...
If you were to travel back in time and kill your grandfather you would no longer exist...I believe this is false and What I'm saying is:
If you travel back in time, you have removed yourself from your original timeline, and are viewing your grandfather as an observer.
You kill your grandfather...Doing this should mean you cease to exist, but because you have removed yourself from your original timeline and time before your point of travel will have no effect and you are free to carry on from that point onwards as you have created another timeline in parallel to your original timeline.
So what I am saying is killing your grandfather is possible and will have no effect on the time traveller as he has removed himself from the timeline his grandfather will go on to create. You will still exist but in another life you will not exist, this is the point I believe the Paradox has not made clear.
You could argue you kill your grandfather and you do not make the the time machine, but as you have already created an alternate timeline you will have already left.
In simpler terms: If you had 10 minutes of video and that was your life and you erased 6 minutes from the middle you would have 2 minutes on each side and on those 2, 2 minute portions you still exist...The 6 minutes are the point, you kill your grandfather to the point you travel back in time...
Something that's been on my mind for sometime...
If you were to travel back in time and kill your grandfather you would no longer exist...I believe this is false and What I'm saying is:
If you travel back in time, you have removed yourself from your original timeline, and are viewing your grandfather as an observer.
You kill your grandfather...Doing this should mean you cease to exist, but because you have removed yourself from your original timeline and time before your point of travel will have no effect and you are free to carry on from that point onwards as you have created another timeline in parallel to your original timeline.
So what I am saying is killing your grandfather is possible and will have no effect on the time traveller as he has removed himself from the timeline his grandfather will go on to create. You will still exist but in another life you will not exist, this is the point I believe the Paradox has not made clear.
You could argue you kill your grandfather and you do not make the the time machine, but as you have already created an alternate timeline you will have already left.
In simpler terms: If you had 10 minutes of video and that was your life and you erased 6 minutes from the middle you would have 2 minutes on each side and on those 2, 2 minute portions you still exist...The 6 minutes are the point, you kill your grandfather to the point you travel back in time...