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Hey guyies, can i get some really interesting and crazy paradoxes, except the grandfather one, thank you
Trollegionaire said:Time travel is physically impossible.
My favorite is from Bill & Ted's excellent adventure. Their time machine had the strange property that the return trip has to be the same "length" (in time) as the trip. So if they go back 100 years, spend 5 minutes there, and then go "home", they will end up in the place they left, 5 minutes after they left it.Viru.universe said:Hey guyies, can i get some really interesting and crazy paradoxes, except the grandfather one, thank you
It was much better realized in Chris Smith's "Triangle"(2009).BobG said:The last was supposed to be the concept of the movie "Looper", but it was badly done. In other words, by the end, you had an unstable reality that couldn't possibly exist unless it didn't exist, etc.
Bandersnatch said:It was much better realized in Chris Smith's "Triangle"(2009).
FlexGunship said:I'll throw my two cents in:
Read Heinlein's short story called "--All You Zombies--" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"—All_You_Zombies—"). It probably sets the world record for best time travel story ever. I never quite figured it all out, but I'm pretty confident that every character in the story is the same person. If I recall, it's only 10-20 pages long. Read it. It's worth it.
Here's the full story:
http://faculty.uca.edu/rnovy/Heinlein--All%20you%20zombies.htm
BobG said:If the time travel pool ball deflects the original pool away from the pocket, but then enters the pocket itself, you also have a stable reality. Except now you have a loop created entirely by the time travel pool ball.
BobG said:Pool ball is sent into the corner pocket. The corner pocket is the entrance to a time machine. The exit from the time machine is the side pocket.
The time machine only sends the pool ball far enough back in time that it hits the pool ball headed towards the corner pocket.
If the time travel pool ball deflects the original pool ball, but not enough for it to not go in the corner pocket, then you have a stable reality. No problem.
BobG said:Pool ball is sent into the corner pocket. The corner pocket is the entrance to a time machine. The exit from the time machine is the side pocket.
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The time machine only sends the pool ball far enough back in time that it hits the pool ball headed towards the corner pocket.
FlexGunship said:I'll throw my two cents in:
Read Heinlein's short story called "--All You Zombies--" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"—All_You_Zombies—"). It probably sets the world record for best time travel story ever. I never quite figured it all out, but I'm pretty confident that every character in the story is the same person. If I recall, it's only 10-20 pages long. Read it. It's worth it.
Here's the full story:
http://faculty.uca.edu/rnovy/Heinlein--All%20you%20zombies.htm
Fredrik said:I like the version that goes like this: You shoot a pool ball towards the middle of the short edge of the table. Now two things can happen.
1. Nothing interesting.
2. An older version of the pool ball emerges from the side pocket and hits the side of the younger ball, deflecting its path into the corner pocket.
The cool thing about this is that neither alternative is a paradox.
Bandersnatch said:It was much better realized in Chris Smith's "Triangle"(2009).
The memories of the film are a bit hazy, no thanks to the plot being a (charmingly intriguing)bastard child of a contortionist and a schizophrenic, but I would assume she was not exactly thinking about going sailing when she had put them on.BobG said:But what the heck is with the main character's shoes!? I have to admit they're nice and all, but for sailing?
HallsofIvy said:After realizing that he can't just talk to the computer...
HallsofIvy said:After Scott gives the supervisor enough information to make "transparent aluminum", Kirk protests that they could be changing the past. Scott responds "How do we know that he wasn't the inventor of transparent aluminum?" Excuse me? As long as we don't know what happened in the past its alright to do whatever we want? And, any way, Scott, being the well educated engineer that he is certainly should know who created transparent aluminum. It would have made much more sense if Scott had said "But captain, he did invent transparent aluminum". That would still be a "closed time loop" but would have made more sense.
ModusPwnd said:Is there a difference between physically impossible and just impossible? I don't understand what "physically" has to do with it... ?
FlexGunship said:I'll throw my two cents in:
Read Heinlein's short story called "--All You Zombies--" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"—All_You_Zombies—"). It probably sets the world record for best time travel story ever. I never quite figured it all out, but I'm pretty confident that every character in the story is the same person. If I recall, it's only 10-20 pages long. Read it. It's worth it.
Here's the full story:
http://faculty.uca.edu/rnovy/Heinlein--All%20you%20zombies.htm
skeptic2 said:The thing that all backward time travel stories have in come is that the time traveler himself doesn't regress in time, everything else around him does. If the traveler were to regress in time he would get younger and lose his later memories. He would never meet a younger version of himself because he would be that younger version. Unfortunately this doesn't make for an interesting plot. It seems that this split direction of time travel in which the time traveler continues to travel forward in time, i.e. he gets older and accumulates memories, but everything else travels backwards in time, is the crux of the paradox.