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    If you went back in time and killed your grandfather, who would kill your grandfather?



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    If one was to go back in time and halt the production of all the Warcraft games... What would happen?
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    you're not supposed to kill someone unless they kill you first. it's common sense.

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    If one was to go back in time and halt the production of all the Warcraft games... What would happen?
    what if someone stopped the invention of electricity

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nenavn View Post
    If one was to go back in time and halt the production of all the Warcraft games... What would happen?
    You might not be a virgin

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    My guess would be that your grandfather would simple seize to exist and you would never be born, but thats just in one of many many diffrent multiverses that all play out diffrently playing out all the diffrent depending on the choices we make.
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    Quote Originally Posted by yeto View Post
    what if someone stopped the invention of electricity
    what if someone who went back in time and killed the first ape thing

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    Quote Originally Posted by brob View Post
    what if someone who went back in time and killed the first ape thing
    I reckon shit would be hitting the fan.
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    Time travel is only theoreticaly possible forwards, and not backwards. Guess why.
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    Time travel is only theoreticaly possible forwards, and not backwards. Guess why.
    Because if you did theoratically go back in time you would suffer major atom degeneration.
    If you went back 5,000 years and you are 20 years old then you would be, well, -4,980 years old. lol

    Atleast, that's the theory :>

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    Quote Originally Posted by Belahl View Post
    My guess would be that your grandfather would simple seize to exist and you would never be born, but thats just in one of many many diffrent multiverses that all play out diffrently playing out all the diffrent depending on the choices we make.
    But if you're grandfather will seize to exist you will never be born and thus not be able to travel back in time to kill him

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    Quote Originally Posted by Twoflower View Post
    Time travel is only theoreticaly possible forwards, and not backwards. Guess why.
    Because we are always traveling forward in time? Lol

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    what time travel theory are you using? The Single time-line or multi-time-line?

    Some say that if you go back in time and change something it will directly effect your time. (Terminator)

    And then there is the other guys who say once u go back and change something an alternate time-line is created and has no effect on your life.(Back to the future)

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    Quote Originally Posted by brob View Post
    what if someone who went back in time and killed the first ape thing

    There would probably be peace on earth.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kanshan View Post
    If you went back in time and killed your grandfather, who would kill your grandfather?



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    It's called the Grandfather Paradox. The most common hypothetical result is that there is a fork in reality, whereby a new reality branches off and the reality where you exist as a descendant of your grandfather ceases to exist as a reality.

    Time travel is definitely a head exploding idea. The possibilities are endless.

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    The theory I hear most often is that time travel is only possible in one direction, namely forward.

    There are other theories (sorry for the lack of source material, might add some later, I'm sure there's loads of decent (and loads more crappy) stuff available by googling it)

    -A certain time machine should make time travel possible to the past, but not earlier than the creation of the machine itself.

    -According some physicists (including hawking) time travel would only be possible to the future, for example by moving in an object at a speed close to the speed of light. When moving near this speed, time would slow down to prevent from moving faster than light speed (Which is, according to people a lot smarter than me, physicly impossible). "If I sit in a train that moves at the speed of light, and I walk to the front of the train, I would be moving faster than the speed of light." This means that, the higher your velocity, the slower time will move (This is a proven fact: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation if you want more details.).

    This means 2 things:

    1.apparently we will never be able to go back in time and kill our forefathers (or hitler for that matter).
    2. I watch too much discovery channel

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    What if your future self would come visit you, and give you the plans for a time machine, later on you'd travel back yourself and give your past self the plans. Who had created the first plans for that time machine?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Noc View Post
    There would probably be peace on earth.
    Except for all the carnivores devouring the helpless herbivores.

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    A question is any statement requesting information.
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    You didn't specify when you killed your grandfather, an easy answer would be, your grandfather got killed by an unsub, you'r dad/mom has already been born and then you got born, wondering how ur grandfather died untill the day you realize it was you who killed him

    If Pinnocio tells you his nose will grow, what happens?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quilox View Post
    You didn't specify when you killed your grandfather, an easy answer would be, your grandfather got killed by an unsub, you'r dad/mom has already been born and then you got born, wondering how ur grandfather died untill the day you realize it was you who killed him

    If Pinnocio tells you his nose will grow, what happens?
    Lol never heard the Pinnocio one before, clever.
    It's basically the same as this old one:

    The following statement is a lie.
    The previous statement is the truth.

    ---------- Post added 2011-01-29 at 12:26 PM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by jvbastel View Post
    The theory I hear most often is that time travel is only possible in one direction, namely forward.

    There are other theories (sorry for the lack of source material, might add some later, I'm sure there's loads of decent (and loads more crappy) stuff available by googling it)

    -A certain time machine should make time travel possible to the past, but not earlier than the creation of the machine itself.

    -According some physicists (including hawking) time travel would only be possible to the future, for example by moving in an object at a speed close to the speed of light. When moving near this speed, time would slow down to prevent from moving faster than light speed (Which is, according to people a lot smarter than me, physicly impossible). "If I sit in a train that moves at the speed of light, and I walk to the front of the train, I would be moving faster than the speed of light." This means that, the higher your velocity, the slower time will move (This is a proven fact: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation if you want more details.).

    This means 2 things:

    1.apparently we will never be able to go back in time and kill our forefathers (or hitler for that matter).
    2. I watch too much discovery channel
    Velocities don't stack like that when moving at relativistic levels.
    Even at everyday velocities they don't stack.. it's just so close it's unnoticeable.

    ---------- Post added 2011-01-29 at 12:30 PM ----------

    Here's an interesting thing to think about. If a spaceship is traveling at 95% the speed of light above the earth and fires a laser straight forwards (in the same direction they're traveling), the laser will be traveling at the speed of light away from them, but will also be traveling at only slightly faster than the speed of the ship relative to the stationary observer on the ground.
    If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.

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