Wednesday, June 24, 2015

My Opinion on the Grandfather Paradox



First of all some of you may or may not know what a grandfather paradox is. For those who don’t know, the grandfather paradox is the concept developed by Nathaniel Schachner of what would happen if a person went back in time and murdered or convinced his past grandfather not to get married, thus having that person who traveled in the past never being born. Many physicists believe that the person traveling to murder of convince their grandfather would have never been born in the first place or that none of the event would have ever happened in the first place. Other physics believe that if such a case were to happen that there could be a tear in the space-time continuum or that natural order and laws of physics would affect and fix the problem naturally. Many story writers believe that the individual traveling back in time would simply disappear. I believe something different would happen. I believe if one were to go back and murder their grandparent or convince them not to marry, one would create a new alternate timeline(or alternate reality) where one continues to live on, but could have potentially have altered that specific timeline in which one would have potentially would have never been born. The reason I believe this is because I believe the “arrow of time”, which is the idea that time travels in a straight line, (from the result that the universe is pulling away and becoming from what was once structured and organized to messy and unbalanced), is actually made up of infinite possibilities as becoming definite as time goes on. Once a possibility becomes definite, it becomes part of a definite and unchangeable timeline. In other words, time is like a web of infinite possibilities. As time occurs, it draws one of those future possibilities of what could occur and becomes the present and then resulting to becoming the past which cannot be changed or altered. With my idea of an infinite number of possibilities for future events, it also gives me an idea of how alternate realities could exist. In conclusion, even though there are practically an infinite number of possible present and future outcomes, everyone has the ability to change and shape their own reality in the present which will result in becoming part of our timeline in the past; therefore, if you see your time traveling version of yourself, have a beer with them, see what kind of reality they come from, and keep an eye out in case they try to murder you. 

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