The Grandmother Paradox
fabiano
Posted: Apr 28 2003, 01:10 PM
fabiano
Posted: Apr 28 2003, 01:10 PM
This is the most common example of the Time Travel Paradox.
It describes how a Time Travellers action when travelling back in time alters the Time Travellers future creating a paradox.
Firstly the Time Traveller returns to a time before the birth of the Time Traveller ?s mother and therefore the Time Traveller. An action caused by the Time Traveller results in the death of the Time Traveller?s grandmother. There is now a paradox.
....if you kill your grandmother then you would not be born, therefore you cannot travel to the past and kill your grandmother, so you would be born, so you could travel to the past and kill your grandmother....
External link:
http://www.cix.co.uk/~antcom/gp.html