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time for the ST Time Travel Loop Paradox to Make Your Head 'Splode question of the day ,...

Posted by i'm not dead yet ! (aka pacrat) Jul 25 '12, 13:24

Time Traveller A goes back in time exactly 1 month (terms here used only for sake of arguemnt) ... he remains in "his past" without jumping back to his point of origination, thus meaning that there are 2 A's concurrantly existing in the same time but different physical locations ... Person A (who went back in time, and Person B, the original version pre-time jump)

at the end of those 30 days, what happens to both Persons A and B? does Person B *disappear* because they are the version that made the time jump?

There's a lot more to it than this, i'm sure ... i just got on a time travel kick this afternoon and I'm trying to resolve some of these questions in my head ...

Responses:

they both exist forever until person A wants to jump time again -- nm - CQ Jul 25, 13:37
If Person B doesn't jump back, then Person A never jumps back, and nothing happened. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 13:36 4
- no. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 25, 13:45 1
  - You can't really say "no" to a phenomenon that doesn't exist outside of fiction. :) - Beryllium Jul 25, 13:53
- Also, I wondered about this for the show Seven Days. Whenever he did a backstep, did they summarily execute his original self? :) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 13:38 1
  - (I bet Ramsey would have *loved* that job) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 13:39
I think in both the Primer and Back to the Future series... - Dr.Vermin Jul 25, 13:33
That's how they do it on Fringe. - miffed67 Jul 25, 13:32 12
- That's multiple dimensions though, not time travel. -- nm - Ender Jul 25, 13:33 11
  - Also, the alternate dimension thing is the same as in time travel. A different time space is the same as an alternate dimension. They exist ad - miffed67 Jul 25, 13:36 2
    - and the observers do travel through time -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 13:37 1
      - Yeah, but Observers are a special case, I think. For some reason they're outside of the natural laws. -- nm - miffed67 Jul 25, 13:37
  - Walter time-travelled, too. As did William Bell. I think. Didn't they? -- nm - miffed67 Jul 25, 13:34 7
    - Robocop time travelled, but I am not sure if he brought anyone with him -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 13:35 6
      - The Terminator did too, but he didn't bring anyone with, did he? -- nm - miffed67 Jul 25, 13:37 5
        
        I meant Peter Weller's character ... Terminator brought SkyNet with him :) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 13:37 4
        
        I feel a classic sci-fi movie weekend coming on. - miffed67 Jul 25, 13:38 3
        
        The whole Terminator universe is one giant causality paradox -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 13:39 2
        
        That was done on purpose. Cause and effect. What we do now affects what happens in the future in ways we can't begin to fathom. - miffed67 Jul 25, 13:42 1
        
        SkyNet doesn't exist if the Terminator doesn't come back and leave a piece of himself behind. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 25, 13:50
Person B doesn't disapper, they travel back in time and become Person A. -- nm - Ender Jul 25, 13:32 1
- but what if person A steals the time machine and travels back himself, what happens to person B? -- nm - znufrii Jul 25, 13:34
if something changes and person b never makes the jump, then they both exist -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 25, 13:25 1
- so concurrant existance of the same person ... hhhmmm ... so much to that which I now wonder about ... - i'm not dead yet ! Jul 25, 13:29

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