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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