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Rochey wrote:Uh, Dusk, that's pretty much what I was saying. You can't go back and change stuff that way, full stop. However, the universe isn't going to change its own rules to stop you creating a paradox if it were possible.

Now you're making no sense whatsoever. If a paradox were possible it wouldn't be a paradox

A paradox is merely a contradiction.
The act of going back in time in your own universe is, as far as I'm concerned, impossible. Thus the paradox will never come about.
However, even if it were possible to go back in time in your own universe, reality isn't going to start doing backflips just because you murdered your own father, or whatever.

The mear act of you taking a step in the past changes everything. Chaos theory is that everything is involved.

Rochey wrote: The act of going back in time in your own universe is, as far as I'm concerned, impossible. Thus the paradox will never come about.

You're only saying that because it hasn't been done before. Besides, a time machine, in theory, can only go back in time to the point where it was built.

ChakatBlackstar wrote:

Rochey wrote: The act of going back in time in your own universe is, as far as I'm concerned, impossible. Thus the paradox will never come about.

You're only saying that because it hasn't been done before. Besides, a time machine, in theory, can only go back in time to the point where it was built.

What prompts you to say that?

There is real science behind that. It has to do with quantum physics I think.

I'm not disputing that there is real science behind it, and I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. I meant it literally - I'd be interested to see the source for that.

I saw it on wikipedia in high school when I was reading and um... borrowing stuff from the talk page for a paper on Time. It was a surprisingly good paper. I also learned that if you travel back in time you would take the apperance and life of the form you had at the time. So if you travel back to when you were six, you'll look like a six year old to everyone in that time period. So if that theory held true then you'd only be able to travel back in time in your own life. Kind of like that movie, Butterfly Effect I think it was. I doubt time travel could work like that but you get the idea.

Hmmm. I'll have to see if I can find that. What principle caused the limiting effect?

Mikey wrote:Hmmm. I'll have to see if I can find that. What principle caused the limiting effect?

C'mon, man. They covered all this on Quantum Leap. Its called the "Bakula Effect".

I remember reading somewhere that time machine could be created using whormholes. Attatch one end of the wormhole to a point on Earth, and the other end to a ship, then send the ship away at relatavistic speed. When it eventually returns, less time will have passed on the ship than on Earth, so you'll be able to step into the ship end of the wormhole and out the other end several years in the past (although years after the experiment was started).

Or something like that.

Just gotta find a wormhole...

Teaos wrote:Just gotta find a wormhole...

Where's Bajor again?

*Striker sighs as everyone points in different directions* Never mind...