Inter - Dimensional Time Travel as mentioned in Real Life

[JudgeMental]

[quote="Lord Terrible";p="325254"]
Taking the letter-from-the-past analogy, you would only receive the letter if it provoked you somehow to write the letter. If you DID write the letter, unprovokedly, and delivered it to the past, only to not write the letter again, you really didn't get the letter at all, because you never wrote it and sent it. If you, however, wrote and received the letter, and wrote the letter later in life in order to send it to the past, the circle would be completed and the letter would exist [/quote]

You know, this analogy has always made me wonder about something...

Taking it a little further, what would happen if you mailed the SAME letter from the future back to your past self? Your past self gets the letter, reads it, puts it back in its envelop and reseals it, then, some time in the future, sends it to his past self.

Makes me wonder...

[Lord Terrible]

[quote="SomGuy";p="325353"]

It's not like a piece of string being divided by a timetravel, more like a string you could take a leap backwards on.

Read my post. Translated to your analogy, a nearly infinte amout of "strings of time" exist for every possible placement of atoms, each timeline is unique and "time travel" would just be hoping on to a certain string where you existed at a certain time with the same exact brain at that moment. Honestly it is just stupidity to think such a thing actually could happen.[/quote]
Is it because you just read what you want to read? That was the exact opposite of what I said

[SomGuy]

Is it because you just read what you want to read? That was the exact opposite of what I said

No... I was trying to convince my point to you

[loren]

this sems to be hitting on the same lines as the tv show "Sliders".

[Lord Terrible]

[quote="SomGuy";p="325837"]

Is it because you just read what you want to read? That was the exact opposite of what I said

No... I was trying to convince my point to you [/quote]Ah, it makes a sense now

My idea was basically that you didn't skip dimensions, you altered the current universe into a state it had been in previously. It was just for the thought experiment of it... But I am open to dimensions too

[The Hypno Toad]

The idea of sending yourself a letter was used heavilly in both Bill & Ted movies, it worked out very well for them. It was also used once in the Gargoyles cartoon. It was over 100 years instead of 10 but itwas how the main villain made his fortune. It has to have been a plot twist in more cases but I can't remember any.

As for killing ones grandpa I will tell you the old standby that often happens. "There are more fish in the sea."

When gramps kicks you will probably find out that you granny was very indiscriminate in her day. It may have been to help morale during the war. Plan B is that you will most likly become your own granpappy. It may be unhealthy but if time travel is possible then so is being able to say "I am my own grandpa!!!!" This is what obviously happens when someone says your the spitting image of your grandad but ther is no concrete photography or documentation to back it up.

[Lord Terrible]

Errr... Hypnotoads posts have been going down since season 23...

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I hope you're not using Bill & Ted and cartoon movies as documentation for something

[mrchapel]

Each particle in the universe takes its own path through the universe or space/time. If you go back in time and kill your grandfather, you will still exist simply because matter does not disappear... ever. But if you were to stay on the time line you would not see yourself be born because you changed the events leading to your birth. However Chaos Theory says that any change can have radical effects on anything else.