In sci-fi shows which involve the main characters travelling back into their own pasts, protagonists are often warned that touching their past selves will cause a paradox (for example, in the Doctor Who episode 'Father's Day'). If you accept that being part of your own timeline is possible without causing a paradox, why does the act of two versions of yourself from two different times touching cause one?
2006-07-22 06:57:54 · 6 answers · asked by Foxie 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Something about the same matter cannot occupy the same space I think. You would have the same matter past and present so if you touched the other then it would somehow become one and probably end up killing both which send ripples through your own life effecting millions. I am no scientist or anything but that's what I gather from what I have seen
2006-07-22 07:03:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Umm...you should always be careful when you are touching yourself :-)
Is it something like matter and anti-matter? if they meet then you'll get a huge cataclysmic explosion.
I'd think that two versions of yourself existing in the same time would be a paradox. Let's face it, if you believe in time travel then you can make up any rules you want!!
2006-07-22 07:04:57 · answer #2 · answered by ♪ ♫ ☮ NYbron ☮ ♪ ♫ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the act of touching a past version of yourself could close a portal: leaving your two versions to collide and absorb into one. Or what you're referring to are worm-holes or Riemann cuts, connecting different realities where they overlap for brief instants.-In that case, touching the paradoxical self could cause the instantaneous encounter to dissolve.
2006-07-22 07:09:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you can NOT be in the same place at the same time. It's not encountering yourself in the past that's the problem, it's the impact that encounter can have on your future. If meeting yourself changes the course of your future, then you will not be in the place where you met yourself in the past, and then will you still exist?? :)
2006-07-22 07:01:27 · answer #4 · answered by Julia L. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because then fate is altered dangerously
it conflicts with the future and updates the past
2006-07-22 07:00:21 · answer #5 · answered by x_cybernet_x 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You think too much.
2006-07-22 06:59:03 · answer #6 · answered by Golgo-13 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋