Do you think time travel will ever be possible? Stephen Hawking has made some experiments related to this and his conclusion was that because nobody received his invitation to that party he said he'd throw for people of the future, time traveling was never invented. He also said that the feedback effect would cause a massive explosion which would not allow a portal to a different time to be made. But maybe they never got the invitation because something happened to the invitation in the first place - such as the house it was stored in was burnt down or who knows where the invitation got lost in the future (if the future exists at this time, but I doubt it exists).
But everyone's taking the time travel as traveling to an alternative dimension, instead of thinking of using the current existence and modifying it. In the usual theories, if you go back in time you can meet yourself (and maybe both of you explode if you do), or you can cause the grandfather paradox which should erase you from history and such.
What if time is actually not working that way? What if, in order to travel to the past, we must modify the matter? After all, that is what we actually want if we want to change stuff in the past: recreate the events and memories of that time. What if the future and the past do not technically EXIST, only the present exists and the future that will become our present is constantly changing at the same time with the present? What if it's all just a domino game?
In such a theory, one will NOT meet their self in the past if they revert the world to the state during which the time traveler was already born. It would actually mean that the time traveler as a kid would suddenly disappear (and not even be remembered by the parents, it was never born in the first place). This would prevent paradoxes from happening. The rule would be that anything that exists today can be reverted to an earlier form, but if that something is not subjected to reversal, it would not be part of the "new past" that would be created upon the "time travel".
In addition, current existence would have to be erased for the entire world except for the time traveler, in order to bring back the past.
What would happen in this case if the traveler would shoot their own grandfather? Nothing. The traveler will still exist, he/she still keeping the material that they carry since that material was never restored to its past state while the time machine was used. If their grandfather would not be killed, at some point someone ELSE would replace the time traveler as the child of his parents, or there may be no child born at all. More consequences would mean missing animals from that time (material from the food consumed by the parents was never restored to the source) and a different future, a future where the time traveler is known to just have appeared out of nowhere and was never born.
One huge problem related to this time traveling method: it would take a TON of energy to even reverse a small portion of Earth, or a room at least, back into its older state at a recorded time, and it would take an epic super computer to monitor / record changes to the area that will be reverted to its past state (reverse from point B to point A). But it's kind of like a system restore, applied to the real world.
Mind blown? Or the theory might never work? How do you imagine time traveling and why?
But everyone's taking the time travel as traveling to an alternative dimension, instead of thinking of using the current existence and modifying it. In the usual theories, if you go back in time you can meet yourself (and maybe both of you explode if you do), or you can cause the grandfather paradox which should erase you from history and such.
What if time is actually not working that way? What if, in order to travel to the past, we must modify the matter? After all, that is what we actually want if we want to change stuff in the past: recreate the events and memories of that time. What if the future and the past do not technically EXIST, only the present exists and the future that will become our present is constantly changing at the same time with the present? What if it's all just a domino game?
In such a theory, one will NOT meet their self in the past if they revert the world to the state during which the time traveler was already born. It would actually mean that the time traveler as a kid would suddenly disappear (and not even be remembered by the parents, it was never born in the first place). This would prevent paradoxes from happening. The rule would be that anything that exists today can be reverted to an earlier form, but if that something is not subjected to reversal, it would not be part of the "new past" that would be created upon the "time travel".
In addition, current existence would have to be erased for the entire world except for the time traveler, in order to bring back the past.
What would happen in this case if the traveler would shoot their own grandfather? Nothing. The traveler will still exist, he/she still keeping the material that they carry since that material was never restored to its past state while the time machine was used. If their grandfather would not be killed, at some point someone ELSE would replace the time traveler as the child of his parents, or there may be no child born at all. More consequences would mean missing animals from that time (material from the food consumed by the parents was never restored to the source) and a different future, a future where the time traveler is known to just have appeared out of nowhere and was never born.
One huge problem related to this time traveling method: it would take a TON of energy to even reverse a small portion of Earth, or a room at least, back into its older state at a recorded time, and it would take an epic super computer to monitor / record changes to the area that will be reverted to its past state (reverse from point B to point A). But it's kind of like a system restore, applied to the real world.
Mind blown? Or the theory might never work? How do you imagine time traveling and why?
