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New Model Solves Grandfather Paradox
goldfishy writes "If you went back in time and met your teenage parents, you could not split them up and prevent your birth - even if you wanted to, a new quantum model has stated. Researchers speculate that time travel can occur within a kind of feedback loop where backwards movement is possible, but only in a way that is 'complementary' to the present. In theory, you could go back in time and meet your infant father but you could not kill him." From the article: "Quantum behaviour is governed by probabilities. Before something has actually been observed, there are a number of possibilities regarding its state. But once its state has been measured those possibilities shrink to one - uncertainty is eliminated."
I am my own grandfather!
Farnsworth: Oh, a lesson in not change history from Mr. I'm my own Grandpa!
"OK, McFly, here's the gun. If you can kill your own father and thus erase yourself from existence, we'll know the theory was wrong."
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By doing the nasty in the pasty.
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No sane history teacher would force his/her students to watch people post to /.
Great. It's not like I wasn't uncomfortable enough having sex in front of the just the dog. I have to worry about porn technology from the future.
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not to mention the best-selling novilization of the movie that followed shortly there after!
1) Your analysis is based on bad assumptions so your result is way off. 2) You're a sick bastard for fucking a horse.
That's not clear at all. If I went back in time and killed the baby George W Bush, it's like he would disappear in the middle of a speech. Rather the entire course of history branching from that moment would be changed, so that in the "present" no one would ever know GW had existed.
Who?
"Anyone else having difficulty imagining a scenario where it would be "impossible" to kill somebody?"
*cough* Bin Laden *cough*
Well, I, for one, will never enjoy a pasty ever again.
You mean like when my friend went back in time and killed President Barnes when he was in first grade?
Hmm, how long have you been fantazing about bumping into your Mom so that a different sperm would impregnate her?
I really could have gone without hearing the phrase "impregnate your mom" this evening.
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As was covered quite competently in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure , perhaps still the best treatment of time travel ever given by Hollywood.
I am sick of this democrat-republican warring permeating every aspect of society. Can't we become suspicious at other countries and invade them together, as Americans?
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
This story is a dup. The original will be published next week.
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The fact that this was modded "Informative" can only be explained by time-travelers coming back in time to clue us in on how screwed the stock market is about to be.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
That sounds like a wager.
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Hereforth, I propose that all mass in our universe is comprised of elaborate boolean operations on chicken. After all, it is a well-known truth that chicken tastes like everything, and it also helps explain why so much of DNA is the same throughout species.
Unfortunately, I don't have a concise mathematical model to support this hypothesis yet, but I'm sure there's someone resourceful out there who can take care of all that hand-waving stuff.
... so there's no chance of stopping Lucas from making Episodes I-III?
Let the commencement BEGINULATE!
I get tired of people being so limited in their thinking. A quantum wave function does not need to collapse. It can vibrate between all possible futures. When we observe it, it is our interaction with it at whatever point it is in its vibration that changes what universe we are in. The wave appears to collapse as we have now changed our own location in the multiverse relative to the quantum wave we were observing. Notice that we ourselves can act like quantum waves and that we like the wave we were observing are vibrating between possible realities. We simply made an observation or in other words we engaged in action that caused a quantum level interaction that pushed us away from another quantum waves location givings us the appearance of its collapse into one certain reality. As to what happens when you kill your grandfather in the past. In the universe you leave you would appear to vanish forever having engaged in a action that moved that reality away from you. In the past you do kill the man whose particles participate in the multiversal wave that your Grandfather participates in. The result is that you have now moved yourself into a universe in which the matter making up your dad's structure is dead. You still exist because you came from the future at a point in a another universe in which he still exists in the living form of your to sire you. So, ironically, the answer is that you cannot kill your actual father but you can go back and kill a version of your father and in so doing remove yourself forever from the universe in which your father exists. :-)
... being one's own father is not going to be nearly as messy as being one's own mother?