Author Topic: Paradoxes.  (Read 14248 times)

A man travels back in time and kills his own father before he himself is concieved.  But then he was never born, so he never went back in time to kill his father, so his father concieved his son who was born and went back in time and killed his father before his conception, etc, etc...

Classic.  
Actually, the classic one is the Grandfather paradox.
On the topic of time travel, how can there be a future if we're currently in the present and the future hasn't happened yet?  Unless this is the past, which it isn't. >.>


Or is it? :cookieMonster:
You sir are stupid. Current understanding of time travel is really simple.

Time operates on a one line basis where there's only one spectrum of time and when you speed up time, time goes with you.

Time operates on a one line basis where there's only one spectrum of time and when you speed up time, time goes with you.
There are some hypotheses about time being two dimensional.

There are some hypotheses about time being two dimensional.
Dimensions are only an idea made by man kind to describe shapes or objects that lay on a certain number of axis, so I don't believe time has a dimension, because time is just a measurement relative to planetary rotation and orbit.

A world without friction.

A world without friction.
We would all die. We wouldn't be able to move, several bodily functions wouldn't work (ie digestion, requires food to be moved with muscles, muscles can't catch a hold). Is that supposed to be a paradox?

We would all die. We wouldn't be able to move, several bodily functions wouldn't work (ie digestion, requires food to be moved with muscles, muscles can't catch a hold). Is that supposed to be a paradox?

I'm saying it can't exist. Animals couldn't reproduce, and according to the Big Bang Theory, energy could have not been built up in the atoms within the ball. So basically, it couldn't exist.

Dimensions are only an idea made by man kind to describe shapes or objects that lay on a certain number of axis, so I don't believe time has a dimension, because time is just a measurement relative to planetary rotation and orbit.
Philosophy aside, time is a very real thing and is persistent throughout the universe. However, a large number of things change the rate of it's passing. Our hours and minutes are determined by the rotations and movements of our planet, but that doesn't mean that all time is tied to those things. Notice in star trek how they use "Stardates" instead of a standard day system? Because days are arbitrary as far as universal time is concerned.

You are correct in your definition of dimension, at least in it's simplest sense. Generally time is percieved to have a single dimension, as a piece of string or a standard number line. going in two directions and nothing but those two directions. The concept of it being two-dimensional implies that our timelines wiggles around a deal and introduces the possibility of odd phenomena.


Note: This is my basic understanding of this topic. I do not have a major in this field nor have a read an excessive amount about this. Thus I may be completely and utterly wrong.


My mind hurts.
From the above post, the topic, or a headache?


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I didn't mean to imply that time was measured by OUR rotations and orbits, I was going more along the lines of universal rotations and orbits, such as our galaxy rotating and orbiting, and possibly farther.

As for time, it could be possible that time wiggles, as there are changes in orbits and other things related to masses of gravity, but I'm not sure I would call time an actual substance that inhabits our universe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
This also happens with the human body, cells die and are replaced every second. :cookieMonster:


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Time is not a constant, however the speed of light is, so therefore traveling faster than light can cause time travel.