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luvs_animals OP t1_jdrpks4 wrote
More stupidity at We're Out of Cornflakes
ProBono16 t1_jdrqa9b wrote
This is the only outcome that would have worked. If he killed baby Hitler, Hitler would have still existed because if they killed him, they wouldn't have made the time machine to go back and kill him, thus reverting back to the original timeline. The only option is to steal baby Hitler's toys.
Both-Solution-4038 t1_jdrqsk6 wrote
That's just the grandfather paradox
ProBono16 t1_jdrqxg9 wrote
It works for most things.
Fetlocks_Glistening t1_jdrrmog wrote
Or to want the toys bad enough so that you'd still make the machine just to go back for them
ctrev37 t1_jdrrsfv wrote
That’s if the inventor made the Time Machine with the only purpose of killing hitler. Let’s say that was just one of his tasks on the list.
Blue2403 t1_jdrrw8n wrote
The world would be infinitely different
ThinlyEnlarge t1_jdrrzxn wrote
Now we know why Hitler was so cruel.All he wanted was his missing toys stolen from him as an infant!
aleeget t1_jdrsp14 wrote
Maybe he was destined to see it. Maybe Hitler killing everyone prevented an even bigger tragedy. Best course of action so to speak
ExhibitAa t1_jdrsqlo wrote
The paradox remains. If Hitler died as an infant, you don't use the time machine to go back and kill him.
ctrev37 t1_jds0j07 wrote
So you’re saying time is always fixed and the past can not be altered.
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J8YDG9RTT8N2TG74YS7A t1_jdsk7zf wrote
Yes.
Travelling backwards in time is impossible due to causality.
Travelling forwards in time relative to now is possible due to time dilation from increased speed + distance from Earth.
Or you could just freeze yourself in the snow and wake up in 2546 and become the time child.
ctrev37 t1_jdso1zv wrote
The past is the present waiting to become the future. All three of these exist simultaneously. The human mind is only capable of perceiving the present.
Peace_Hopeful t1_jdt057o wrote
You could probably alter small things, but there is probably a hard limit of what can and can't be done. A better use of the energy would be to save the people who got murdered at the death camps. There's a really cool episode from the 90s outer limits where a time traveler helps a lawyer try and prosecute a former German death camp guard.
fackn_b t1_jdujnre wrote
Why do people always want to kill Hitler? It will happen in a other way like now with Ukraine. You're better of saving Nicola Tesla and prevent the combustion engine and develop the electric car together with free energy.
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