Falkon303
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Ok, so I am very interested in time travel, but I wonder about the logic/mechanics of it.
Let's pretend in your past, you went to the park, ate a hotdog, and went home, and you have a great memory of it because it was very windy that day.
Now let's say later in your life that the CIA employs you as a lab rat for a time travel experiment, and you teleport back to the moment you had the hotdog, and have a chat with yourself. What I imagine would happen is that if you return to the future, it would be completely different, and there may in fact be a new version of yourself as well as your current self because you had created a new future version of yourself, and your time travel self wasn't affected because when you time travel, the past-future relativity is broken.
Anyways, I believe that's how it works, but I'd love to hear what you all have to say on the subject. Also, if you could, please explain in simple terms as any physics or convoluted mathematical explanations aren't really what I am asking about. The science and math of time travel is one thing, but the basic logic and mechanics is another.
I guess I should have posted this in the Time Travel forum. Well, hopefully a time traveller will answer it.
Let's pretend in your past, you went to the park, ate a hotdog, and went home, and you have a great memory of it because it was very windy that day.
Now let's say later in your life that the CIA employs you as a lab rat for a time travel experiment, and you teleport back to the moment you had the hotdog, and have a chat with yourself. What I imagine would happen is that if you return to the future, it would be completely different, and there may in fact be a new version of yourself as well as your current self because you had created a new future version of yourself, and your time travel self wasn't affected because when you time travel, the past-future relativity is broken.
Anyways, I believe that's how it works, but I'd love to hear what you all have to say on the subject. Also, if you could, please explain in simple terms as any physics or convoluted mathematical explanations aren't really what I am asking about. The science and math of time travel is one thing, but the basic logic and mechanics is another.
I guess I should have posted this in the Time Travel forum. Well, hopefully a time traveller will answer it.
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