RE: I want a time machine to go back and kill.
June 30, 2015 at 6:32 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2015 at 6:33 am by Alex K.)
(June 29, 2015 at 8:06 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(June 28, 2015 at 9:03 am)IATIA Wrote: Pretty much right on. If time travel were possible then we would be nothing more than shadows of the past with no true existence or free will of any sort.
Is anyone else bothered by time travel movies and books in which someone first stops their parents from meeting or marrying or some such and then gets them back together so all is well? The problem being that the particular child they had was the result of a particular egg meeting a particular sperm and just calling them up on the phone in the middle of sex would change that. And on that theory just walking into the past and saying hi to anyone would change a whole line of progeny.
No, not at all - if the reality which the time traveller produces by going back is the one that was already in his past before he went, i.e. if history is self-consistent and the same before and after the time travel episode, then I have no problem. I have this problem very much if someone changed their own past, yes. Of course, him fading on the familiy foto is just a silly plot device that makes no sense whatsoever.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
