If we are able to travel back in time on day, which way would it happen? The Bill and Ted version, where when we go back in time to do something, it's results were already seen in the future, even before we actually did go back in time; or the Back to the Future version, where when we go back in time, anything we do will cause us to return to a different future.
2006-09-12 09:58:54 · 3 answers · asked by Take it from Toby 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
the bill and ted version is the only one that makes sense. if you could go back and change something such that you no longer would come to be, then that would be mutually contradictory.
clarification based on a question sent to me: what i mean by mutually contradictory is this... if you go back in time and, say, kill your mother before she was born, you wouldnt ever be born, so you couldn't go back in time to kill your mother, so you would be born so you could go back in time to kill your mother, so you wouldn't be born, so you couldn't go back in time to kill your mother, and so on and so forth into infinite. There can be no way to go back in time and change something which makes it so there is no way to go back and change it. as such, ANY change you make going back in time already occured (the bill and ted way) such that you can't mess it up like that.
2006-09-12 10:03:40 · answer #1 · answered by promethius9594 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The time traveling would happen in the Back to the Future way. Everything that happened in the past, contributes in some way to how things are now. So if you change something back then, then that will have a ripple effect on time and events and change the present day.
2006-09-13 10:00:16 · answer #2 · answered by Asterisk_Love♥ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Back to the Future way. Why would anything you do not affect the future. Maybe it is insignificant to some people, but for others it would change drastically.
2006-09-12 10:04:47 · answer #3 · answered by Master Kenobi 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋