Gorepete Wrote:Thee Pie Man Wrote:Random theory, if you go back into the "past" it wouldn't change anything for the people living in the future you came from because that future would be apart of another line of events that did happen, all you'd be doing is going back, changing something so people in another line of time would have better lives/ be richer, etc. I have also thought about it and I think you'd have to have built it in the time period you want to go back to, otherwise how can it exist in the other time? Which brings me to my next thing you'd have to exist in the other time aka you would be as young as you were at that point of time. O:
You are also assuming there isn't a natural order to the universe. Who is to say that even if you did go back in time, there would be no major impact on the time line because the universe is self correcting. While it is true that a butterfly flapping its wings can cause an earthquake in Russia, there are also numerous amounts of steps in that chain that can be corrected to ensure the earthquake will occur even if you go back in time and squash the butterfly!
I believe in Darma in a way, so I feel there is a natural order.
What I am saying is that what happened already happened in the timeline we are apart of, regardless it's there because if not then we would have seen the change already and therefore have already had changes. Some people claim this to be the work of deja vu as well. Seeing something in one instance for what it was then it changing to the next instance. I have had Deja vu happen many times in my short life, sometimes for the better or worse yet I technically "see" no change. The fact is that changing something for yourself before would show up if it was to show up. If it's not showing up and someone did crack time then obviously there is a way to make branches in time line...Or the person exploded XD
Example:
Squish butterfly that causes earthquake = Timeline having no earthquake - Chaotic cycles that could cause even worse disasters or the latter
Squish Butterfly that causes earthquake = Nothing different happens - For natural order keeps it going
Put it in a jar and release it = Timeline has no earthquake - Chaotic cycles that could cause even worse disasters
Put it in a jar and release it = Nothing different happens. - For natural order keeps it going
If we know for certain that the butterfly actually causes the earthquake then stop it we don't get an earthquake unless something natural orderly about the universe says fuck you, earthquake happens one way or another for someone else had the same idea and went back and squished all the butterflies which caused a pollination crises and killed everything for that butterfly was the key in tons of events yet to come, so much happened that the man killed himself in the past yet still existed for the order of things he's still there, he still exists in that time, otherwise he would have vanished the moment his life ended then. However if we do not know that the butterfly would have caused this event, the idea of the universe having an order that can move even with the Chaotic throw of a time machine trying to alter things seems like a counter argument if I do say so myself because I could easily say.
Well uh..If there is a natural prevalent force of the universe putting order then even if we changed the past it wouldn't change the future we came from because the fact is that it is in order when the person goes back to change things, the person probably even set's to motion events in the future he wouldn't even realize. Even if we wanted to change the past we could not because either A. It's already been tried, B it's how everything got to be now, or C it's just illogical to try to change things that were meant to be.
^ If there is a nature order of course.
Otherwise I say fuck it, I am going back and killing hitler because I hate his actions, that or I am taking him, putting him somewhere in the mountains with paints and futuristic art books and tell him if he shows anyone them he'd explodify. :L
Also yes I have heard of Stephen Hawkings.
@JayJay, "Then where do the stories come from I wonder?"