Time Travel And New Territory

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by davidelkins, Sep 27, 2016.

  1. davidelkins Registered Senior Member

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    Pertaining to time travel, if you go to the past of a place that neither you nor any human has ever been to before, then could any Grandfather Paradox occur? Let us say that it is an alien planet filled with aliens. DE
     
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  3. origin Heading towards oblivion Valued Senior Member

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    Not physics and math. Not science. Reported.
     
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  5. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    Thread moved to Free Thoughts as this seems to be just that - a thought experiment.
     
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  7. Sarkus Hippomonstrosesquippedalo phobe Valued Senior Member

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    Yes.
    The aliens are so perturbed by your sudden arrival that they seek out Earth and destroy it... before you would have otherwise been born. So no human other than you has ever visited the place you're in, but there are now no humans yet you have still to be born. Yet you exist.

    Grandfather paradox 101.
     
  8. origin Heading towards oblivion Valued Senior Member

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    This would only be possible if the planet was hollow.

    If you went back in time and married your grandmother you could be your grandfather.
     
  9. sideshowbob Sorry, wrong number. Valued Senior Member

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    If no human had ever been there before and you went there, then today that place wouldn't exist because you were there in the past, so you couldn't go there.
     
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  10. TheFrogger Banned Valued Senior Member

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    "That's what you'd do with a time machine? Go back and miss traffic?"
    The Goldbergs.

    Forget that, what about the future?? Would predicting the future negate time??

    Time:--->
    Me:------>

    I WILL die, that is my prediction!

    As for your question, you have ALREADY existed, and therefore so has your grandfather, so you could not, and would not, kill him.
     

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