The thinking mans thread

[Thrapster]

Is there a thread for the complete lack of nothingness? or would that be an oxymoron. Ok actually. What I want to know is...we were having this discussion at lunch today. If you went back in time, would you be able to affect your present?

a.Is there one line of time you stay on where you can affect it.

b. Or is there two lines of time where it doesnt matter what you do, because you are already the way you are. And it CANT change.

I actually think it is the first choice.

But that's just my opinion.

[pickel]

If I hadn't changed my freshman year finals, I wouldn't be in the shape I am today. You can only go back once so don't make the same mistake I did

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

Hypothetically, it would cause a paradox, Since if you went back in time to change something to make you happier or affect you life greatly then when the "new you" got to the time that the "Old you" went back to change it, he wouldn't have a reason to go back in time thus not changing it and you would be stuck in a loop, the universe would eat itself etc. etc. etc.

[ILC]

I fully agree with Wizard.

If you go back in time and change something, more than likely you will change the total outcome of the future enough to void your first coming, which would void the original change. Would this not then cause an infinite loop of time?

ILC

[Thrapster]

That's what I thought! But a friend of mine insisted that there are two lines. And there is no way you can affect the past because if it was affected, there would not be a you. So you couldnt do it. You would affect line number 2, but not your line. I cant really explain it right, like he did.

But that's just my opinion.

[Brainchild]

Well I'm totally confused now...lol

I agree with wizz and ILC. Haven't you ever seen all three parts of back to the future??

Science fiction writers have had an interesting idea about time. Some have suggested that little alterations can lead to a new time tracks forming, meaning there are millions upon millions of parallel universes that exist(or can exist). In one, pickel didn't change his finals, and he became President. .

That sort of time idea is actually pretty neat, IMO.

Cheers
Mick

[SPEEDO]

What if you go back in time and change one thing that would alter your future, but in the process of doing this causes your untimely death a year later. Where would you be now? Underground?

There is no going back it's not allowed...............LOL

[Theophylact]

Read Jorge Luis Borges's classic story, The Garden of Forking Paths. (This web site contains the whole story, but in a chaotic, hypertext-linked form with additional commentaries.)