What would happen if you traveled back in time and killed your father before you were born?

Answer 1

this is a paradox and it is impossible. If you killed your father you could not be born and therefore you could not travel back in time to kill your father.

Answer 2

Something would prevent you from achieving your goal - unless of course you travelled to an alternate timeline wherein you were never born because your father was killed by an unknown person. But that's not really time-travel, is it?

No, you would fail in your attempt. Why? Because it's already happened. We already know you've failed - you're here and able to ask the question.

Answer 3

A "split" would occur. When a split occurs it would be impossible to ever get back to the universe you originated in, it may however be possible to create a similar universe. For example in our little case study when I find myself in a future void of any knowledge of me I might decide to go back in time and kill myself when I appear in the time machine (before my other self gets a chance to kill my mother). Then presuming that I haven't changed things too much the duplicate of me in this universe will be born, grow up and travel back in time with the same purpose (disappearing out of this new universe) and I will be ready to travel forwards in time again to take his place. It will look to our observer friend of this (yet another) new universe as if I had simply disappeared and then reappeared a few moments later (and with any luck my bank cards work again!).

Answer 4

If you were already conceived then you would be born fatherless. If you were not already conceived then you would alter the future from that moment on and set in motion a complex course of events that would change the lives and possible existence of a large but unknown number of people. This number would depend on unknown variables such as: how many children would your father have had , how many children would they have had, how many children would your Mother have had with a new partner and so on. The variations are almost infinite.

Answer 5

Some feel you would be alive because of an alternate reality

Some say time is, so you could never do that, as it would have happened (see how they resolved the time travel issue in Harry Potter 3)

Answer 6

I believe that if your father were killed before you were born,you wouldn't be alive after your father was killed.Your created from genes from both mother and father.They both put forth different characteristics from their DNA that creates you.Doing that creates you,without either side the same person wouldn't be there if their father or mother were killed before they were meant to be born.

Answer 7

Well now here is really great one. Firstly, It can't be done. And it is paradoxical in nature too. Moreover, it is a hypothetical question
that can only be answered as such. So just to hunour you - would you vanish as his heart stopped or would Captain Janeway beam you out of the act of murder just as you were about to slay papa with a broken bottle?

Answer 8

It would be a paradox--if you killed your father, before he and you mother conceived you, there would be no you--for example-Back to the Future, at the Enchantment under the Sea dance, if McFly's parents hadn't kissed, then they wouldn't have fell in love, thus no baby McFlys

Answer 9

he would not have been your father and your saying you killed your father would be false. Any way we always travel back intime and still cant undo the past

Answer 10

Friction Movies freek are you..dude you have to hate yourself enough to be even think of killing your father before you were born. You are what you are because of the decitions that you make NOT YOU FATHER...he lived his life...LEARN to live yours.