Would I not simply change the direction of time?
As in, if I go back and kill my father before my conception, I've already been born in my time but I will not be born again. However would I not just simply be incorporated into that timeline, and just have an origin in the future?
So my question is more about would I be able to alter a timeline without the possibility of a multiverse?
2007-03-28 03:35:04 · 6 answers · asked by Luis 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Your question posits two mutually exclusive events, a single timeline and a multiverse of potentially infinite timelines. You suggest you could go back and kill your father before your conception. (A single timeline event.) But then you switch to a multiverse with infinite mirror timelines that merge and converge according to individual line manipulations. In that case, your trip back in "time" would actually be a vertical rather than a horizontal movement through time. You would not be killing your father, rather a mirror image in a converging timeline.
If all of this seems a bit confusing, consider this: There is no time machine.
2007-03-28 03:54:58 · answer #1 · answered by SA Writer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some stories regarding that involve the person 'phasing out of being' (think 'back to the future' when marty breaks up his parents).
Others will have events somehow equalize so that you still exist, but maybe change a bit.
Some theories say you would create an alternate reality (quantum)
It's all crap though, at least as far as we can tell. Time travel is pretty much impossible. Time dilation effects caused by ridiculously high speed (interstellar) travel are the closest we will probably ever come to it.
2007-03-28 03:44:58 · answer #2 · answered by Joe M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
time paradox is a complex issue since its mostly hypothesis and time travel is no where near being able to prove possible.
However from my knowledge on time paradox works if you were to travel back in time and kill your father before you are conceived then you will cease to exist after your father dies thus altering the time line ever so slightly. That of course is just hypothesis as is the multiverses.
2007-03-28 03:54:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because there is no such thing as a time machine, nor will there ever be.
Time is a just a concept invented to keep track of things. The only time in reality is now.
2007-03-28 03:42:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you go back in time, you don't exist yet, so you cannot affect anything, at best you could be an observer in a sureal sense like god.
2007-03-28 03:51:10 · answer #5 · answered by bob shark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because if you kill you father you would have never been born.
2007-03-29 03:29:03 · answer #6 · answered by neutron 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋