Ok I'm going to talk as if this really happened so it makes more since!!!
I wanted to time travel into the future with my time watch one day and so I was thinking im only going to go 24 hours into the future, but I go out and buy a rifle just in case something happens because im just visiting the future anyways, ill just go back in time and the whole thing would have never happened so whats the difference, so when I go into the future 24 hours I walk into my room first to see if there will be another me or not and there is another me, but he has a pistol pointed at me, and I was wondering what was going on because I don't have a pistol and im confused, he told me to put the gun down and he wont shoot, but I decided to kill the other me and just go back to where I came from and the whole thing would have never happened. But oh no now I know that in 24 hours another me will show up with a gun so I get a pistol to kill him first, if I still die, would "I" still be alive or him?
2007-12-31 07:03:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
ha! that's well written. Except that if you took yourself out of time by time-jumping to the future, the other "you" wouldn't be there when you arrived. There would only be one you, the one who has time jumped.... unless your time watch worked by cloning you. In which case, when you returned to the start, there would be another you there... with a rifle!
2008-01-01 17:59:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whatever happens it that 24 hours would have influenced you in some way to say, "put the gun down and I wont shoot" So then the past you will still kill you and then this cycle continues endlessly forever until another dimension pulls off where something different happens like present you kills past you thus erasing that reality and making one where you never came back in time to live up to that 24 hours and shoot yourself so you would probably be erased from existence.
2007-12-31 07:42:47 · answer #2 · answered by C..... 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mercy, what a hallucination you have experienced. How did the "you" in you time travel acquire a handgun? Yesterday, today, or tomorrow, legal acquisition of a handgun requires two forms of identification, including one pictorial, a federal background check, that takes at least 7 days, and if you are less than 21 years of age, you are disqualified. Now then, for me to determine how you developed this fantasy, I need to know the state of your mental health.
2007-12-31 07:18:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
"You" are in pretty good shape. You have the advantage, as the the future you can't shoot you no matter what. Because the future you knows that it's the past you that comes in with the rifle and if he shoots his past self, he will cease to be as well.
2007-12-31 07:15:02 · answer #4 · answered by Geno 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're thinking along the same lines as Einstein. He came up with the "grandfather paradox" to explain why he felt time-travel was not possible. The "grandfather paradox" says that:
Suppose you go back in time and kill your grandfather before he married your grandmother. Then, one of your parents wouldn't have existed and so neither would you. So you wouldn't be able to go back in time and kill your grandfather!
2008-01-01 07:42:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a pretty good question; any chance you have a twin that you forgot about somewhere on your trip.
Never hurt yourself; no matter how many of you there are and when your run into yourself.
2008-01-01 14:22:35 · answer #6 · answered by towwwdothello 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only time travel will be with your mind. Have you ever had the feeling (I shouldn't do this),PRESENT: (I did that)PAST:( I will do that)FUTURE.
2007-12-31 22:45:09 · answer #7 · answered by Dustndwind 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋