Time travelling suicide?

Question

Would it be possible to go back in time and kill yourself? My theory is this:
If you go back in time and kill yourself, then there's no-one in the future to actually do it, and so your still alive...
Get my drift?
Anybody have any different theories or ideas?

Answer 1

Oh lets just speculate wildly. Upon killing yourself, you will cease to exist.

Or you will be in a perpetual loop of switching back and forth between killing your self (over and over) and not existing.

You kill your self and you stop existing. AS such there is no one there to kill you so you exist again only to come back some day and kill your self again. This of course would take place at the speed of light. Not existing, killing your self, over and over.

The fabric of time would be torn and you would fall in. Time would close the rift. Where or in what demension you would come out in, is unknown. So that means we coninue on and can not detect that you ever existed. You on the other hand will be doomed for eternity (or the end of time which ever comes first) to oscilate between the moment of killing your self and not existing.

This will continue till the moment time stops. So the question is where will you be at that moment? About to kill your self? Or not existing at all? Either way you lose for eternity. May I suggest that if you invent a time machine, that you find a better use for it.

Answer 2

Hmmm this is gonna be a long answer.

I am led to believe that with each and every choice you make, you create a different scenario, each consequence of your actions branching out into a gazillion possibilities. Your choices create these alternate parallel universes, leading to a course of events that the "alternate you"s will create. The branching possibilities are infinite.

Mind the fact that "you" are not the "you-5 seconds ago" and you are not the same you 5 seconds later. You are subtlely changed little by little and over the course of accumulated time, you won't probably recognize yourself back in time. Your self-conception of the current you is shaped by evidence of your continual existence starting from when you were a baby (photographs, what your relatives tell you the things you did when you were 6 years old, your subjective memory, etc) Without the aid of these evidences of your past choices, how do you know what you are? The confusion will be almost the same as you getting total amnesia and have to start everything over again. Consciousness is an awareness of series of events in a linear timeline that connect you to your particular overall experience.
Any being, even though the genetics are the same, that has different linear memory, consciousness of consequences of different past choices is a being that is not "you of this timeline".

So anyway, let's say that there was a worm hole, a rip in the time-space continuum, a space vortex, a black hole*, and you found a way to jump from this consciousness (in which you posted this question on Yahoo answers) to another consciousness in a different reality, another parallel universe (in which you thought this question was too silly to post on Yahoo answers).

When you are there, you find yourself and murder the being that you perceive to be you. When you kill this "you", that consciousness that you terminate that shared your memories up to some point before it branched out will end. In my theory, you, the terminator, will still continue to exist in that reality, and all the other parallel universes where the alternate yous are still alive, and functioning will still exist, in some other multitudes of parallel universes. The world is not going to explode (except for the other "you" you terminate) and it will still go on functioning as if nothing happened. In fact, some of the "you"s are already dead, murdered by someone else before you even thought of going back and killing yourself.

In other words, what you know as real and alive is not all of you.
This life, is just a facet of the light refracted from a prism. You are not merely just you, because there are gazillons of you. Some of you are running around gangbanging, some of you are
working at NASA as astro physicists. Some of you are already married with five kids and struggling to make ends meet, and some of you are out there producing movies and going on a world tour. I think that all these are not merely possibilities, but definite potentials.

According to this movie I saw, "What the Bleep Do We Know", there was this physicist that said that in each atom, the nucleus
is there and the electrons orbiting around the protons and neutrons are not stationery in any fixed pattern. Instead, the electrons have a TENDENCY to exist, and some exist at different points at the SAME TIME. I don't know if this is true because I didn't verify the same statement to see if other sources validated it, but it's wonderful to believe that we, each of us, as whole human beings, can also exist at the same time in some other reality.

I hope this makes sense. :o)

*black hole-according to scientists, one of the attributes of the theory of black holes is that once you enter the event horizon, each atom that make up the body will rip itself apart due to the intense gravitational pull, so you will be annihilated immediately.

**traveling back in time is currently seen as impossible due to the fact that you need to travel faster than light, and nothing with any mass will even approach the speed of light. You need to weigh less than 0 lbs, which means, you can not exist.

Answer 3

The theory of time travel has existed for years, going back in time COULD be a possibility in the future, but have you considered this, WHAT IF YOU COULD GO FORWARD TO GO BACK IN TIME???. It is a PROVEN fact that RADIO WAVES, transmitted during the second world war, are still travelling outwards in space, which means that other civilisations(?) on other planets, in other galaxys, light years from Earth,could still recieve these signals and assume that what they are listening to is ACTUALLY happening now! NOW THAT IS SOMETHING ELSE TO THINK ABOUT.

Answer 4

This is a terrrific question. Its when you start to think about the fact that the time travel would exist within the time that you are traveling in that things get confusing. It seems like these kinds of ideas and questions really challenge the idea that you could travel through time, but, alas, Einstein and many others say that it is possible. Maybe someday we will know for sure.

Answer 5

U see these theories are all based on a fictional senario that doesnt exist. So therefore anything could be considered true with regards to it.

But for the fun of it, I would say that you would still die if you were killed by your future self because it will take time (no matter how short) for you to die & as soon as you do, only then will the future you die aswell since he already committed the murder.

Answer 6

I don't hink that's possible. If you kill yourself in the past, then you won't live on to travel back and kill yourself. Therefore your modern self would simply cease to exist.

The only useful theory I know of was in "Back to the Future". You could get sports and historical events results from the future and bet on them when you go back to the present, or even the past.

Answer 7

well first and foremost you can't go back in time and kill yourself and using your theory would be incorrect since YOU WENT BACK IN TIME if we could go back in time and do this you would be dead.......noone will be there to bring you back. Now if you went back before you were born and killed yourself then you could become a fetus again. But you can't kill yourself and still be alive. Now maybe if you took someone with you and you killed yourself then the other person can bring you back to life. But theoreticly speaking, if you want to go back in time an kill yourself why would you want to still be alive? I guess you would be considering yourself a guinee pig.

Answer 8

This is a bit deep for this time in the morning. Good question though. Conjures up all sorts of things. What if you killed your Grandfather or Grandmother?

Answer 9

Say you go back in time and kill yourself BEFORE you whiz off in your time machine to begin with. Guess what??? You're done: Game Over!

No, Arnold: you DON'T "loop" the event over and over and over......death is final. Period.

Answer 10

By doing that wouldnt you end up creating an alternate reality, an alternate time line?