birthedbythebigbang
birthedbythebigbang t1_j0zoap4 wrote
This is another reason - perhaps not a classic paradox - that leads me to believe that time travel to the past is a practical impossibility not allowed by nature. It sets up too many causal loops that make no sense whatsoever. Travel to the future is definitely possible, and we're doing so right at this instant, every one of us, and some of us more efficiently than others. If we were ever to send people into the distant future, it would almost certainly require them traveling quite a long distance at relativistic/time dilating speeds for a long period of time (from their frame of reference - much, much longer from ours) before returning to the place they wanted to end up in the future, and then they're stuck there. They can't go back. Like Matthew McConaughey or the character from Queen's "'39," maybe they'll meet their elderly children, or their distant descendants.
birthedbythebigbang t1_ixhrojs wrote
This individual should get years in prison, just for being a moron.
birthedbythebigbang t1_its5ix9 wrote
Reply to comment by on_redditt in Tennis or Ping Pong Communities by Awkward-Donkey-5452
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birthedbythebigbang t1_j101rjr wrote
Reply to comment by MiseryEngine in What if time travel is impossible because of this? by [deleted]
A world where you can go into the past and meet your younger self implies one of two things, both of them unlikely: