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SJGooch
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Why is the "Grandfather Paradox" considered a paradox? Feedback exists in other disciplines, so why not in physics? Isn't disallowing feedback in time akin to stating that a negative feedback system can never exist in nature? (And, yet, they obviously do!)
Why not assume that, as in other applications of feedback, the subject's state-of-being in the Grandfather Paradox becomes the imaginary (as relates to complex variables) state? I.e. the time-traveler actually does kill his grandfather, then is not born, hence does not kill his grandfather, and so is again born to kill his grandfather the next time around, and so on, ad infinitum. So at a point in time after the subject's day of birth, he both exists and is nonexistent, depending on the parity of the cycle of the feedback loop currently being experienced.
Where is the contradiction? Where is the paradox? If feedback is allowed in other disciplines, why not in physics?
Why not assume that, as in other applications of feedback, the subject's state-of-being in the Grandfather Paradox becomes the imaginary (as relates to complex variables) state? I.e. the time-traveler actually does kill his grandfather, then is not born, hence does not kill his grandfather, and so is again born to kill his grandfather the next time around, and so on, ad infinitum. So at a point in time after the subject's day of birth, he both exists and is nonexistent, depending on the parity of the cycle of the feedback loop currently being experienced.
Where is the contradiction? Where is the paradox? If feedback is allowed in other disciplines, why not in physics?