Say you go back into time and prevent your own birth. If causality is an active force, then this is not possible and is a paradox, correct? But if causality is not an active force, then you would simply exist in this universe despite preventing your own birth in the universe you came from. However, according to Wikipedia, "while this would negate the grandfather paradox itself, it says nothing about other changes made to the timeline (for example: what if you killed someone else's parents?), and may assume a separation between the individual's timeline and the "main" timeline of the rest of the universe, essentially resulting in its own paradox -- that the lack of causality as an active force that affects the individual separately from the rest of reality in itself requires that causality be an active force that affects the individual separately from the rest of reality." I can't make sense of this; can someone explain the paradox of no causality to me?
2006-06-13
10:22:58
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