Is this a strong case for alternate dimensions?

Question

If i was going to go five seconds into the past to stop myself from going to the past - then all of a sudden before i visit the past another me comes streaming forth out of nowhere and successfully stops me visiting the past - wouldn't that prove alternate dimensions?

That would mean i was successful in stopping myself visiting the past - but if i didn't ever visit the past who's the guy standing in front of me? It would have to be me from another timeline in which i was successful in halting my own progression through time and the me in the current dimension is an alternate reality in which my time travelling attempt failed.

It might be a little confusing - but time travel is actually possible and this shows that alternate dimensions probably exist. The only case in which this shouldn't be accepted is if "destiny" guides our every move and in turn makes it impossible for me to interact with myself - through a series of coincidences.

Realistic Human:

You're taking this as a literal event that happened - not as an example fabricated to show that if time travel is possible alternate dimensions are possible. And time travel IS possible - believe it or not.

Hatir Ba Loon:

Ah... but if if the theory of multiple dimensions is true there is no reason why not. As any dimension you mess with wouldn't be your own.

Answer 1

Sorry, I don't get that your anecdote 'shows' anything! It seems a complete tautology!

Answer 2

It's much more likely that you would see yourself from a pallerel dimension, and in some cases the other you would be attempting to do negative towards you, sometimes will attempt to absorb you, in an attempt to become more powerful due to problems or greed in their own reality. Regardless of the motivations you can not just assume that your alter self has your best intentions at heart or even likes you! just cause the alter may look and sound like you exactly that actually is not significant in his motivations. Even an "older alter guide" may be deceiving and using you to gain power or as part of his game. Yes portals are a way to travel interdimensionally, slimering is also way that involves teleportation, I suppose that is possible otherwise you would have to travel outside this universe though into behold, there are wormholes, but maybe they are something else to do with stars.

Answer 3

I hate temporal paradoxes. If time travel is possible, and that is not a very big if, this may or may not prove alternate dimensions, since it really would depend on how time travel worked, and if you could even interact with anything, and what consequences would follow.
The number of possibilities that could happen off of that event have been postulated in Science Fiction ever since H.G.Wells, over and over again.
Personally, I don't think it is possible to travel forward or backward in time...Unless I'm wrong, then it'll be different. I'll defer to the mad scientists on this one.

Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!

I go by the observer and screw up theory as to why time travel isn't possible. If time travel were possible, and knowing the way the human race screws thing up, then time would be completely screwed up, and we wouldn't' exist. Since I'm here to write this, and everyone else, in theory, is around to observe this answer, then time hasn't been destroyed, so therefore time travel more than likely isn't possible.

Answer 4

Interesting. It is one of the many cases for time travel.
My thoughts on this subject:
Your story assumes that time is linear.
Another point is that, to me, alternate dimensions and time travel can be viewed as separate concepts. For example, if you, prove time travel, that doesn't necessarily prove alternate dimensions. You are just traveling along the continum of time from point B back to point A, or vice versa. Alternate dimemsions can be viewed as many realities existing during the same time. In this way, time travel is not at work. Another dimension could not only occupy the same "unit" of time, it could also occupy the same unit of space. We are just not able to perceive it because we only perceive the first 4 (possibly 5) dimensions.
Just a thought....

Answer 5

I don't think you have a case for alternate dimensions here. Either:

1. You have a case which disproves time travel or
2. You have a case which shows that because you haven't seen yourself at this point in time, if you ever do time travel you will not travel back to before this point in time. I.e. time travel can't change the past.

A good example for 2. is from The Terminator. The Terminator is sent back in time to kill Sarah Connors, so she can't conceive and give birth to her son, who is currently leading the resistance against the machines (or whoever else it is The Terminator works for). In order to defend Sarah, a bloke is sent back to protect her. He and Sarah have 'relations', with the result that Sarah gives birth to the son who becomes the leader! In trying to change the past by sending The Terminator back through time, the machines actually made the past happen by setting off a chain of events which led to today being what it is.

Answer 6

String theory, one of the stongest theories in physics requires that the Universe is at the very least 11 dimensional. Our 4 dimensions broke off from the other 7 moments after the big bang.

Answer 7

Porfessor Steven Hawking now believes there may be parallel universes beyond black holes. Personally, I'm fascinated with the time shift on my DVB. If I "stop time" or go back in time I really recording the TV station and then when press play watch a recording. but as computers get more powerful perhaps we could have "holodecks" like on Star trek. We could then stop time or go back in time and once back in time or no longer "live" - we could then go forward in time. It's a real possibility. Time travel as it is usually portrayed is impossible ot people from the future would be here to tell us about it. But we can with powerful computers perhaps in the future have virtual world where just about anything is possible including time shifting through time.

Answer 8

What you describe would create a paradox.
We all travel through time in a liner fashion.But it is possible through the soul to go back and forth through the time lines as it is a facet of the Creator. which encompasses all of time.
Read the meaning of the Celtic symbols. especially the double circle with a interlacing line in between.

Answer 9

Hi>
Get a grip on this, mate..
In this universe we deal daily with only 4 dimentions.
Left, right, uo, down & time.
Oh there are around 10 dimensiions, or as I am shown, up to fourteen. This could all be nonesense, but if you consider rate of change of dimensions, and our understanding of them, I end up, being a physics bloke, with a puzzle.
Your question about co-incidence seems OK.
I am just about to call someone, and they call me about 10secs ahead of time.
Easy reasons.Similar thoughts.,
I have visited the 5th dimension, in dreams, and it allows a pathway to other time periods.
I wish that I had not got my Philosiphy thing sometimes.
Fun.

Bob.

Answer 10

Michaell, Avondrow and moonfire have valid points with which I agree. You have not proven alternate/multiple dimensions here. This story only suggests possible scenarios of time travelling.

Answer 11

Are you sufficiently previous to undergo in ideas 8-track tapes? The universes of the multiverse are stacked on actual of one yet another like that, yet additionally maximum possibly at ninety-diploma angles to those above and under them under the dictum that each length is ninety stages from the previous (up X down X out in direction of you) Invoking the lots maligned Philadelphia test--a WWII attempt at an invisibility cloak--what the scientists inadvertently got here upon is that each little thing in specific universe quite oscillates on the comparable frequency--for this reason you may walk on cement, notwithstanding it, like each little thing else is ninety% empty area. one that oscillation value is replaced, you're in a diverse length, and unusual ingredient take place, like human beings coming lower back caught halfway right into a deck-plate. On a greater properly-known be conscious, every time you're making a determination, it spawn 2 universes--one in which you pronounced specific, and yet another in which you pronounced no. in case you tried to pass lower back in time you may arrive at a prior, yet no unavoidably your man or woman. once you tried to return on your destiny the probabilities against looking that distinctive destiny could be 00 (infinity), maybe infinity squared. for this reason sensible time commute isn't a possibility.