Originally posted by spangbr
if they went back and changed the events then thats the way they always were and we could never know..if they went back in time and dusted the guy who
invented coffee makers wouuld we all one day be going damn what happened to all the coffee makers? doubt it.
If you go back in time, alter something, and this creates a specific FUTURE, rest assured that the previous version is just as real as the "newly
created one". All possibilities already exist!
Therefore, if you shot your grandpa as you go back in time, it wouldn't create a contradiction. There is a reality where you are never born because
you shoot your own grandpa, and there is a reality where you do NOT shoot your grandpa and you ARE born. All there is is lessons, and an infinite
variety of same. So yes, if one is to consider what could be changed if one was to go back in time, then any and all possibilities exist, don't they!
We wouldn't be aware of them because we ARE the result of the change. We'd have no memory of anything BEFORE the change.
In fact, if such is possible, then whoever possesses this ability also would inevitably control our entire race! Anyone who can go back as far "back
in time" as they want and create any alterations, can set up the "future" to be exactly as they want it to be, with careful crafting/engineering of
the past. We'd be sheep to the slaughter, which we are.
To take it even further, if it is even POSSIBLE to go back and forth through time, then rest assured it is DONE. All taht is possible exists, that
much I hope is obvious. There's 2 ways to look at it. Either time exists, or it does not. If time exists, then then all things that are possible ARE
true, since they had infinity of time to manifest themselves, and anything that's possible, given eternity becomes MANIFESTED in reality an infinity
of time (think about it).
If times does NOT exist, then everything exists simultaneously and only different focus points in reality exist that simulate the illusion of
"time". In either case, all things already EXIST, and therefore are done. The only thing left to contemplate is whether we think it is POSSIBLE to
travel back in time, and what would be the limitations etc of such. If it is, we're already bought and paid for as we're the property of our
invisible "owners" from the "past" or the "future", which are really one and the same once time is not a factor.
Reality is fun, isn't it...
[Edited on 13-4-2004 by lilblam]
