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Anonymous asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 1 decade ago

Time Traveling Question if time travel were to exist.?

The laws of time travel state that if someone is killed in the past everything that was meant to happen after that time that involves that individual's actions and existence are cut off and to be made as if they never existed after that point because that person basically isn't alive anymore to go through that time stream.

So my question is, if a man time travels into the past and finds his 'past self" then proceeds to shoot him in the face, how is this even possible from the rule stated above?

If the man travels into the past and shoots his "past self" then he could cut off everything he did after that past instance and he would therefore never be able to become his present self to travel back in time and shoot himself.

Update:

Everyone so far has been a little bit off on this question. My point of the question is..if he time travels in the past and kills himself he would never travel to the present to be able to go back and kill himself. I'm not talking about time it's self changing although it would..

I posted the question because it's almost impossible to answer and I proved that by reading these supposed answers. The only rational answer, if time travel were to exist, would be that it would most likely create some kind of split in time where one time stream continued as usual and the other just ended. Kind of like in Time Cop when the villian toched his past self and they blew up because they cant occupy the same existing space or whatever.

Update 2:

Yeah and the first guy "smartguy" which is a funny name for someone who isn't.. I already pointed out that I know time travel doesn't exist. Read the questions all the way through if you're going to answer idiot.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Actually time travel theory also involves paradox..it would have to. Doubling back on yourself would probably occur too. Check out a novel called "annals on the time patrol" It's a fun novel.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Time travel already exist but what your saying about it doesn't, and cant. When you time travel either back, or forward you cant meet or run into your past or future self because you "are" your past or future self when you time travel. So if you're 25 years old now and go back in time 5 years you will just be yourself at 20 years old. And not have much knowledge of it except for some memories.

    Another thing about time travel is that time travelers cant recall much of their travels once brought back to current time. So you could basically be here from a past or future time and not even know it.

  • 5 years ago

    No time travel is not possible, although traveling close to the speed of light dilates time in the eyes of an observer, and it would appear that time has passed by much more quickly at home for a traveller returning from such a trip. The education system would be the first thing to change if you could.

  • 1 decade ago

    The notion of "time travel" is based on Einstein's observation that "time" is represented by the light that bounces off the face of a clock. It does so at the speed of light. So, he theorized, if you traveled away from the clock at the speed of light, you would be traveling with the clock reflection and thus time would stand still. It is further theorized that if you traveled away from that clock faster than the speed of light, the clock would appear to go backwards.

    The "travel" part of this is that in order to do this, you would have to be heading away from whatever you're looking at at the speed of light. Even if that did mean "traveling back in time", you'd also be traveling away from earth, this galaxy, universe, etc.

    I don't think Einstein really believed time travel was possible. There is no theory that I've ever heard that allows time travel without getting very far away from your present existence.

    So, your question is moot. It is impossible to meet your pasts self, let alone interact in any physical way (like shooting yourself in the face).

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  • 1 decade ago

    Basically, LoweDogg, Time Travelling is trying to correct something you regret.

    Live without regrets by doing good to others, and you won't have to become a time travelling assassin.

    BTW, a greater law with time travel is "Don't murder anyone". That law can be found written, too.

    Source(s): Look up a movie from the 2000. Dennis Quaid in "Frequency". It may show a few of the ideas you were talking about. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800353910/details
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I assume he would shoot self and then cease to exist altogether.

    So he wouldn't know much about it and couldn't report the effects to anyone...

    Maybe it already happened...that guy invented time travel, but becuase on that day he was feeling like a douche and had to do something a bit silly, time travel now doesn't exist.

    Happy?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    that is known as the time travel paradox, so you know. Also, time travel is not possible; therefore, there are no laws of science governing it, nor any theories of which it is based / founded.

    So you're imagination can run wild creating your laws in your land of time travel just like mine can in mine, etc. None of it is real, it nothing more than a subset of reality .. an imaginary reality.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well, technically Eintein's rules make it impossible to time-travel, but you said we were to assume it WAS possible.

    I guess any time travel would "erase" the future, just not the objects traveling in time.

    That means, if we went back and shot himself, he'd basically created matter out of nothing (namely himself), and killed the original version of said matter.

    The end result: A dead guy, and a killer who looks identical to the dead guy.

  • 1 decade ago

    Time can't be linear if time travel is possible. Like your example above if shot, then dead, then no travel back in time. You'd need to think about time as more of a point on a grid and you are traveling to different points, not 'back and forth'.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    jeezes id like to know that to id like to win the lottery buy playing the winning numbers just an hour ago lol :D pick all the numbers HAHAHAH

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