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#13
03-08-2007, 06:22 PM
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Re: Post your favorite solution to time-travel paradoxes
In a future timeline (with a different present time?), we had a timemachine. Things went wrong. So we came back and told ouselves not to make the time machine. Now in this timeline we have no time machines, and never will again.
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#14
03-08-2007, 06:29 PM
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Re: Post your favorite solution to time-travel paradoxes
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What if an object identical to an object currently existing spontaneously came into existence a thousand years ago? [/ QUOTE ] In time travel an event is caused from the future, not spontaneously.
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#15
03-08-2007, 06:54 PM
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Re: Post your favorite solution to time-travel paradoxes
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30 years ago I read "The man who folded himself." It's a story about a man who invents a time-travelling machine. Before he tries it, a stranger comes by his house and warns him not to use it. Off-course he tries the machine and he gets in extreme troubles. To get out of the trouble, he decides to go back in time to warn him and tell him not to try the machine... I liked the book very much, the only downside it had, once you have read it, you will never be able to believe that it is possible to travel back in time; something even my physics-teacher wasn't able to do. (so it somehow degrades movies like Back to the Future, and Terminator; that's the downside.) [/ QUOTE ] My favorite time-travel paradox story is Heinlein's "All You Zombies", a short story whose protagonist is a hermaphrodite time traveler who is his own mother and father.
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#16
03-08-2007, 07:18 PM
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Re: Post your favorite solution to time-travel paradoxes
The Vulcan Science Directorate has concluded that time travel is impossible.
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#17
03-22-2007, 02:14 AM
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Re: Post your favorite solution to time-travel paradoxes
I personally believe #1, but I'll posit another fun option:
7) Time travel IS invented in the future, and time travelers from the future DO constantly visit us. They are those pesky UFOs, and those little green men are future humans that have evolved or genetically modified themselves to survive the environment of a foreign planet. This would at least explain why them seem to be so interested in us, just as we study primates hoping to learn about early man.
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#18
03-22-2007, 02:50 AM
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Re: Post your favorite solution to time-travel paradoxes
My favorite time travel story was by the ace sf short story writer Fredric Brown. It was a one page story but I can condense it as follows:
The physics professor stood in front of his class and said,"I have invented a time machine." He then reached over and threw the switch hctiws eht werht dna revo dehcaer neht eH ".enihcam emit etc.
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