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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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  • Edited by IchEsseKinder: 7/15/2013 9:17:20 PM
    Both theories are correct. If I were to go back in time and kill, say Hitler as a kid, the history that I know of Hitler committing genocide will only be knowledge to me but in effect sense he's dead and doesn't rise to power then nobody will learn of what he could have possibly done. Time travel is something that we experience every day. When star-gazing we see the universe millions of years ago because it takes time for light to travel. The Sun can go supernova any minute but because it takes 8 minutes for light to reach Earth, we're 8 minutes in the past in relation to the Sun. Manipulating this is the key for true time travel.

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