(July 7, 2015 at 10:40 am)pool Wrote: The paradox i know about traveling back to time goes like this:
Consider a person X ,and Y as his girlfriend.
1. X comes back to 1999 from 2010 and tells the X living in 1999 that X should not marry Y because in 2005 Y will dumb X and will leave X depressed for 3 years.
2. So if X is now aware of the information and doesn't marry Y how can he come back from 2010 to 1999 and save his past self.
I thought about this and what i think is this:
*If there are an infinite no of realities,each with its own possible outcomes not dependent of the other realities.
*Then X could've come back to the past X from one of the realities in which Y dumps X.(Every reality doesn't necessarily have to have the scenario that Y dumps X because every reality is different.)
*The past X doesn't necessarily have to be in that specific reality from which the X from 2010 comes and warns past X.
No more paradox?I probably did something dumb in doing so though
If there are "an infinite number of realities" or an infinite number of parallel universes, isn't your "time travel" not really time travel at all, but simply jumping into a different reality or parallel universe?
The way your story goes, it seems that your universe or "reality" does not change at all, it is just that you change another "reality" or universe. So it does not do you in your universe any good at all.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
