I just don't understand it!

Elyam Deoradhán · 01-19-2003, 04:18 AM

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A man travels back in time, he goess to see his Grandma when she was a child.He then kills her.This means that he can't have existed so who killed the Grandma?
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Depends on what theory you go by. I can't remember the name but I know one theory that would render this possible: there is more than one you existing at all times, pretty much one for each milli-second of your entire life, and each in a different realm of time. If you went back in time to kill a person, they would only be dead in that single time realm and would continue to live on in the all the others. So technically when you went back to the present she wouldn't have been killed. You could go into the past a thousand times and change a million things, but when you return nothing would have been changed because time is supposedly "separated" according to that theory. Does that make any sense?

01-19-2003, 04:18 AM	#11
Elyam Deoradhán Sapling Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 4	----------------------- A man travels back in time, he goess to see his Grandma when she was a child.He then kills her.This means that he can't have existed so who killed the Grandma? ----------------------- Depends on what theory you go by. I can't remember the name but I know one theory that would render this possible: there is more than one you existing at all times, pretty much one for each milli-second of your entire life, and each in a different realm of time. If you went back in time to kill a person, they would only be dead in that single time realm and would continue to live on in the all the others. So technically when you went back to the present she wouldn't have been killed. You could go into the past a thousand times and change a million things, but when you return nothing would have been changed because time is supposedly "separated" according to that theory. Does that make any sense?