Paradox Topic

[JJA0]

If you go back in time and kill yourself you die so you could never kill yourself so then you exist again so you then travel back in time to kill yourself so you die so you cant travel back in time because your dead and you stop creating a loving infinite loop.

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[Robo]

"All right," Travis continued, "say we accidentally kill one mouse here. That means all the future families of this one particular mouse are destroyed, right?"

"Right"

"And all the families of the families of the families of that one mouse! With a stamp of your foot, you annihilate first one, then a dozen, then a thousand, a million, a billion possible mice!"

"So they're dead," said Eckels. "So what?"

"So what?" Travis snorted quietly. "Well, what about the foxes that'll need those mice to survive? For want of ten mice, a fox dies. For want of ten foxes a lion starves. For want of a lion, all manner of insects, vultures, infinite billions of life forms are thrown into chaos and destruction. Eventually it all boils down to this: fifty-nine million years later, a caveman, one of a dozen on the entire world, goes hunting wild boar or saber-toothed tiger for food. But you, friend, have stepped on all the tigers in that region. By stepping on one single mouse. So the caveman starves. And the caveman, please note, is not just any expendable man, no! He is an entire future nation. From his loins would have sprung ten sons. From their loins one hundred sons, and thus onward to a civilization. Destroy this one man, and you destroy a race, a people, an entire history of life. It is comparable to slaying some of Adam's grandchildren. The stomp of your foot, on one mouse, could start an earthquake, the effects of which could shake our earth and destinies down through Time, to their very foundations. With the death of that one caveman, a billion others yet unborn are throttled in the womb. Perhaps Rome never rises on its seven hills. Perhaps Europe is forever a dark forest, and only Asia waxes healthy and teeming. Step on a mouse and you crush the Pyramids. Step on a mouse and you leave your print, like a Grand Canyon, across Eternity. Queen Elizabeth might never be born, Washington might not cross the Delaware, there might never be a United States at all. I'm not born, so I don't step on the mouse..."

EDIT: This is from "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury.

I read that in English :o

[BobSevenSevens]

I go back in time to right before the Hindenburg burst into flames. I stop someone from destroying it, and it lands safely. Within the Hindenburg going back was to be $$$ for Germany. Then, WW2 starts, Germany manages to finish the atomic bomb first, and they kill us with atomic bombs. However, that means I was enver born, which means I didn't build the time machine...

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[Sarge]

Those billboards that advertise for an advertising.

[The G Man]

I read that in English :o

loll me too

[Inv3rted]

I go back in time to right before the Hindenburg burst into flames. I stop someone from destroying it, and it lands safely.

The Hindenburg disaster wasn't sabotage.

[Creola]

/Matrixlul

*Takes both pills

:D

[Nightzet467]

The Hindenburg disaster wasn't sabotage.

CONSPIRACY THEORY!!!!!

[Fizzles]

The paradoxasaurus, you can only see it, if you don't believe in it.
- Demitri Martin (Spelling?)

[Meekl]

This sentence is a lie.

Today, was 9.9.09. September has 9 letters. Wednesday has 9 letters. It's the 252nd day of the year, which adds up to equal 9. However, today was an average day. MLIA 

Not a paradox but loving awesome

also in Wisconsin there was a baby born that day at 9:09 AM weighing 9 pounds 9 ounces and 9 inches tall.

[DrMobius]

/Matrixlul

*Takes both pills

:D

stuff

[Nightzet467]

Demetri Martin, just google it

[Daedalus]

I've actually heard some pretty good paradox's that don't involve time machines.

Like what?

[Bones4]

The time travel paradoxes are pointless, as time travel is not possible.

[Inv3rted]

The time travel paradoxes are pointless, as time travel is not possible.

For all we know.