Time Travel Paradoxi

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is time travel possible to the past in which you kill your mother , and if so do you pop out of existence then?

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How do you think of these questions, Hanle y?

Besides, you are Hanle y Deus -- can't you just whisk some random ILEr (DG or Ethan, say) back to the past to do this thing and test out yer hypothesis?

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah, send me back in time to kill tad's mom and we'll see if his response to this is still here.

― ethan, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You also might not get anything on yer wish list if Hanle y Deus were to do what you say, Mr. Padgett.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You would simultaneously exist and not exist, probably creating a ghost or something. This is why matricide is illegal.

― Trevor, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you can manage chickenbears but not closed time-like-curves

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Possibly you would still exist, but you would also create a different reality in which you do not exist.

― Ally C, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

See Back to the Future for definitive answers.

― Nick, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well of course I did create the universe, but you littel buggers live in it, so you tell me!

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This thread reminds me of an old Alan Moore story called "Chrono- Cops" about these two undercover agents that went back and forth in time busting criminals, like the guy who stole the Mona Lisa and had it in his living room for 50 years, then replaced it a fraction of a second after he'd originally stolen it so nobody realised.

One of the agents goes a bit loopy and goes back in time to marry his own grandmother. His partner busts him at the wedding, arrests his sidekick and then ends up marrying the grandmother himself. Then his sidekick breaks out of jail and things start to get complicated.

― Trevor, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

things start to get complicated then? :)

― katie, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Trevor: Chronocops is w/o doubt one of the best short stories they ever ran in 2000Ad. it r classic. a few panels are used several times, and it's only on the later repeats of the panel that you really see the full picture, where the details become important. seen this done many times since, but that was the first time for me, and still the best. alan bloody moore.

― Alan T at home, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it would have been better if it had been called choco-cops.

― Nick, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

shut up dastoor

― Mike Hanle y, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alan T - Agreed, completely agreed. I managed to dig out my all-time personal favourite over the weekend - the Reversible Man, the story of the man that lives his entire life backwards, starting with his death and ending with his birth. It was hilarious and yet strangely touching at the same time.

The whole story was peppered with amusing touches, like his "first" day at work when the boss stole his gold watch or his inexplicable desire to constantly put full cups of coffee into the coffee machine.

― Trevor, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'The Reversible Man' - ripped off by Martin Amis for 'Time's Arrow', haha! If not that, then 'Counter Clock World' by Phillip K. Dick, which opens w/ an amazing scene of people born out of the grave.

― Andrew L, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fourteen years pass...

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/11/24/can-we-escape-from-time-james-gleick/

When it comes to the philosophy, and indeed the physics, it goes without saying that it’s fascinating to see brilliant minds “taking up residence in Grand Hotel Abyss” (to borrow George Lukacs’s crack about Theodor Adorno). What would be good, though, would be for someone to call us back when the thinking leads to something, anything, that we can see or feel or sense or even understand—because all this astonishingly brilliant thought and science and learning and history, all these amazing stories, as far as I can tell, have no consequences at all. Our commonsense subjective understanding of time is as telling, as tyrannical, as it ever was. A century-plus of fervent speculation and analysis of time and time travel have led to exactly no outcomes. We are as stuck in the present, as irrevocably exiled from both past and future, as ever.

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Saturday, 12 November 2016 19:05 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

four more years

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5386759/Time-traveller-2030-PASSES-lie-detector-test.html

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 17:49 (seven years ago)

seems legit

― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 18:16 (seven years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEDgG5MKndo

― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:53 (four years ago)

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