Post by Pacy McNeil on Apr 30, 2011 14:04:35 GMT -5
Time Travel Questions
So something in Back to the Future two always bothered me. When Doc Brown is explaining alternative timelines, he says that there’s a line, and a decision splits that line into two, creating an alternative timeline. So one persons decisions always splits the world into two, one where you said yes to a decision and one where you said no. But then which timeline is prime? Which timeline isn’t? There must be an infinite possibility of timelines somewhere. Is it like Fringe the TV program where there is only two timelines, the world of ‘yes’ and the world of ‘no’. If so which one do i belong too? Is one better than the other?
Another thing bothered me about time travel. How comes people always say if you meet yourself, there will be some kind of paradox and the world will end? If you were always open to the idea of time travel, wouldn’t you be a little shocked but accepting of the fact of meeting yourself from a different time?
The last thing that bothers me about time travel is the butterfly effect. Changing one thing in the past can seriously alter the future. Sure, but if it came to the choice of killing one person to save millions, wouldn’t you do it? I would, if it could stop a desolate future by killing a few people in the past, then so be it, because it they are the ones who did it, then why shouldn’t they suffer before they do what they do.
That is all for now, my brain just hurts trying to write this, and trying to explain it in an easier way for your peon brains to even comprehend
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