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Introduction To Time Travel

1. Time travel to the past is theoretically possible but could create paradoxes like killing your own grandfather before he had children, preventing your own existence. 2. One solution is the grandfather paradox involves creating a consistent causal loop where killing your grandfather sets off a chain of events that must occur to ensure your own existence and the timeline remains unchanged. 3. Another solution is parallel universes where time travel transports you to an alternate reality or timeline so any changes don't affect your original timeline.

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Introduction To Time Travel

1. Time travel to the past is theoretically possible but could create paradoxes like killing your own grandfather before he had children, preventing your own existence. 2. One solution is the grandfather paradox involves creating a consistent causal loop where killing your grandfather sets off a chain of events that must occur to ensure your own existence and the timeline remains unchanged. 3. Another solution is parallel universes where time travel transports you to an alternate reality or timeline so any changes don't affect your original timeline.

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TIME

INTRO
DUCTIO TRAVEL
Time travel
the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner
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analogous to moving between different points in space, generally using a
theoretical invention known as a time machine. Time travel is a recognized
concept in philosophy and fiction, but has a very limited support in theoretical
physics, usually only in conjunction with quantum mechanics or EinsteinRosen
bridges.
At its most basic level, time is the rate of change in the universe -- and like it or
not, we are constantly undergoing change. We age, the planets move around the
sun, and things fall apart.
It all comes down to the relationship between time and space. Human beings frolic
about in the three spatial dimensions of length, width and depth. Time joins the
party as that most crucial fourth dimension. Time can't exist without space, and
space can't exist without time. The two exist as one: the space-time continuum.
Any event that occurs in the universe has to involve both space and time.
In this folio, we'll look at the real-life, everyday methods of time travel in our
universe, as well as some of the more far-fetched methods of dancing through the
fourth dimension.

Grandfa
ther

You're a
time-traveling
assassin, and your target just happens to be your own grandfather.
So you pop through the nearest wormhole and walk up to a spry
18-year-old version of your father's father. You raise your laser
blaster, but just what happens when you pull the trigger?

SOLUTIO
NS TO
TIME

Caus
Inconsistent Causal Loop
al
1.

Based on grandfather paradox, if you kill your own grandfather in the past,
he'll never have a son. That son will never have you, and you'll never happen
to take that job as a time-traveling assassin. You wouldn't exist to pull the
trigger, thus negating the entire string of events.

Consistent Causal Loop


According to physicist Paul Davies, such a loop might play out like this: A
math professor travels into the future and steals a groundbreaking math
theorem. The professor then gives the theorem to a promising student. Then,
that promising student grows up to be the very person from whom the
professor stole the theorem to begin with.

2.Post-selected model

What does this mean? Well, put yourself in the shoes of the time-traveling
assassin again. This time travel model would make your grandfather
virtually death proof. You can pull the trigger, but the laser will malfunction.
Perhaps a bird will poop at just the right moment, but some quantum
fluctuation will occur to prevent a paradoxical situation from taking place.

3. Parallel Universe
The future or past you travel into might just be a parallel universe. Think of
it as a separate sand box: You can build or destroy all the castles you want in
it, but it doesn't affect your home sandbox in the slightest. So if the past you
travel into exists in a separate timeline, killing your grandfather in cold
blood is no big whoop. Of course, this might mean that every time jaunt
would land you in a new parallel universe and you might never return to
your original sandbox.

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