There is another time travel thread which I posted the following on, however no-one else has replied since. Unforunate as I would be more than happy
to hear what people think of my take on it, even the debunkers
:
It's that old one, the Paradox effect ................... yet again. You will never see a time travel discussion without it being mentioned.
It's a simple fact of life that our current laws of physics (I say current as scientists are breaking new ground every day) cannot provide an
adequate explanation as to what would happen if a time paradox occurred.
You are born.
You grow up and build a time machine.
You go back in time, shoot your Father in the head while he is a young man.
Your father dies, so you are never born, and never build a time machine.
Your father thus never dies.
You are born.
etc....
What would happen? Would the Universe implode or explode, tearing apart space and time as it gets caught in the equivalent of a 'loop' in a computer
program?
Perhaps things wouldn't happen in such an explosive way - perhaps you and your father would simply cease to exist, or be forcibly removed from this
reality while the rest of us plunder on regardless. Perhaps fate would determine that you never actually manage to build a time machine and thus never
initiate the paradox in the first place.
The current Quantum theory proposes that there are millions of Universes, each one the result of a different outcome from a certain decision/choice.
This is mind bogglingly complex and hard to comprehend, in terms of pure numbers : how many combinations of posible outcomes are available from every
reaction between 2 or more elements in the entire universe? Multiplying
trillions x trillions x trillions x trillions wouldn't even bring you
close to the true number.
I am not a scientist and I have no answer for this conundrum. However, I do find it hard to believe that whatever force was responsible for the
creation of the Universe - nature, God, the big bang, whatever - also decided on an infinite number of universes. Of course, an omnipotent being (by
their definition) has no limit to their power, but one must still question the plausibility of this. And if it is nature controlling it and not a
'God', how exactly does nature implement such a device? How does it create entire new Universes based on whether I turn left or right at the end of
my road?
You could dig this hole even deeper by exploring the spiritual and religious side of it too, particulaly if you're a believer in God or a supreme
force which judges us all.
Let's assume there are multiple universes, designed to compensate for paradox effects caused by time travel. Lets say that in one universe, I grow up
to become a murderer/rapist and in another, I am a good and lawful person.
How am I judged when I die? Is there more than one of me? Does the good one go to Heaven and the bad one to Hell, or are all the trillions of me from
all the universes judged as a whole?
You can see why I have trouble with this multiple universe theory. Of course, if you believe that we simply turn to dust when we die then the matter
of us being judged by a supreme being is irrelevant. Nevertheless, it's hard to accept that there is no 'definitive'
me out there - just
millions and millions of copies of me, each one with an equally valid claim to my being.
Continued ..............
