The Giant Korean@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoThe reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition.message-squaremessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1268arrow-down124file-text
arrow-up1244arrow-down1message-squareThe reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition.The Giant Korean@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square94fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·6 months agoI believe the only viable timeline is the one where time travel is never invented because if you create the machine to go back to prevent something happening then there is no need to create the time machine. Which yes is an actual paradox
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoThat’s why the reason for inventing the time machine is “just in case”
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoUnless the time machines end up being restricted in travel only to the times after they’re built. Which would resolve the paradox
minus-squaredragontamer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-26 months agoEx: The movie Primer. A good time-travel idea in a bad movie.
I believe the only viable timeline is the one where time travel is never invented because if you create the machine to go back to prevent something happening then there is no need to create the time machine.
Which yes is an actual paradox
That’s why the reason for inventing the time machine is “just in case”
Unless the time machines end up being restricted in travel only to the times after they’re built. Which would resolve the paradox
Ex: The movie Primer. A good time-travel idea in a bad movie.
A great movie.