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originally posted in:TFS The Floods Sanctuary
7/15/2013 7:15:53 PM
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If time travel existed...

How do you think it would work? From what I noticed, most movies and shows have one of these two approaches to time travel; Being able to change the present. Like in Looper, where if you went back and changed something, it would effect the current present. This concept kind of confuses me, I mean, it should make more sense because if you went back and done something differently, naturally you would expect your presented to be affected depending on your actions. However in Looper, they used time travel to send your older self back to be killed by your younger self, so when you done that, then got old once again, would your younger selves keep killing your older selves? Will there be never ending yous and keep living different lives each time? Then there's the whatever you done while time traveling, had already happened, and you cannot change the present no matter what, approach. I think I like this one more, because while you're experiencing it for the first time, you weren't aware that you actually played a part in what happened in the past. Seems more interesting to me and less confusing, because it doesn't matter what you attempt to do while time traveling, whatever had happened, is inevitable. So, if time travel were to exist or if it were to be invented, how do you think it will work? Like one of the two examples I listed, or something different altogether?

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  • I personally believe that if time traveling existed, you can never really go back to your own time plane. More specifically, there's a theory that there are infinite universes, each with "what if" scenarios of different outcomes of your past/present/future choices and decisions. Going back in time would send you to your current universe's alternate past; all your decisions have been made and going back would only result in reliving what's already happened, with the exception of there being two if you now, if you went to your past years, or you existing in a time that didnt host you (creating an alternate universe where two of you exist or you are a +1). On the other hand, going forward would result in you being shifted to a different plane where those decisions in your current present are applied to your real world. This works since even if your current decisions don't change (say you went back in time and immediately came right back), your current real world would stay the same but because there are potentially more existences of you, you're no longer in the same time plane. That's my theory anyway.

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