If you were to travel back in time and kill your father so therefore you were never born.. Would you disappear as in cease to exhist( then therfore how did you kill your father in the frist place?) or would you still exhist in the past?
2006-10-14 06:25:39 · 9 answers · asked by mommahnina 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
I dont want to kill my father @@..its a theortical question on time travel. jeez people..
2006-10-14 06:32:15 · update #1
People say it's a paradox but it doesn't really seem so to me. Once you step back in time, you're there. Your atoms, your matter, you are there. Whatever you do that will affect the (now unwritten) future, you're still there. At least that's the way I see it.
2006-10-14 07:11:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there was a means to break time and space around an entity there would also need to be a means or method to prevent contact with oneself as you were propelled back through the sealed continuum. Otherwise the dual existence would pose a problem on a cellular level and on how time space affected us from there on out. You might even be caught in between the barriers of time and space and slide through the continuum uncontrollably as a result. You would be unstable and the Space/Time overlap would not be able to hold you without rippling. In the instant that you killed your father or otherwise prevented your own emergence you'd both become an anomaly on all levels of existence. Because the Time continuum has already locked and sealed you this action would create an irrepressible and irreversible break and/or ripple in how time interacted with space. At different points in time and in space you would exist while at others you would not. Everything you encountered would be affected from there on out, including yourself. It would take conjointly flinging you tens of thousands of years ahead of your last true existence (the point at which you traveled back in time) for Time and Space to find a common convergence and cancel you out. And that is before it could deal with dear old dad. He would need to be locked and stabilized at three points, his last true existence (which is where and whenever he was when you broke the barrier) his cancellation (where and when you killed him) and where and whenever he is at that 'point'. Time and space would need to collapse the three and start off in real time at his point of cancellation, after which things would play out as they had before, and hopefully you wouldn't get the notion again to go back.
2006-10-14 14:42:48 · answer #2 · answered by Rick R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the premise is that there is an intervention in the past that prevents your conception, then, no, you would not exist; all events connected with yourself would become unraveled.
You could take any other historical event like the assassination of Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, and by simply eliminating Booth would prevent the event from happening. The given is the notion of cause and effect; events can not be preordained or triggered spontaneously. (Of course, if you do believe in predestination, you are on your own.)
2006-10-14 13:51:19 · answer #3 · answered by ElOsoBravo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well this is a famous paradox and luckily one that need not be solved as it isgenuinely impossible to travel backwards through time.
However, the options you present are based on whether there is a single timeline or would there be branches of time.
But like I say, I cannot be done. You can of course travel forwards through time.
2006-10-14 13:54:19 · answer #4 · answered by Stuart T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a lesson from Back to the Future. You would probably unravel the fabric of the space time continum and destroy the entire universe. Geez! Think about the rest of us, won't you? I like existence.
2006-10-14 13:35:15 · answer #5 · answered by Justme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually as far as thought about this issue that you won't disappear. We are currently living in the "grand-mother time/instant" and when you go back there will be a condition of "true" and "false". I mean you actually go back to "grand-daughter time/instant". And the "grand-mother time/instant" could not be drawn back. So, if one kills his/her father/mother won't disappear.
Good Luck!
2006-10-14 14:59:16 · answer #6 · answered by colt_commando2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone's been watching Back the the Future a bit too much.
2006-10-14 13:32:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a offal thing to think about killing your father so you would not exist. I think you mat be a bit troubled my dear.
2006-10-14 13:30:15 · answer #8 · answered by grey wolf 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why would you kill your father?....is there something else going on?
2006-10-14 13:30:20 · answer #9 · answered by iamlarry49er 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋