Setting himself up for a paradox or worse
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Time Travel
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I haven't read through all the comments, but has any one else noticed that he is potentially setting himself up for a temporal paradox?
This is, of course, assuming that time travel is possible in the first place, and that there is only one universe.
The artcle states that the reason he got into physics in the first place was his childhood dream of traveling back in time to warn his father about the dangers of smoking and drinking.
If he succeeds in doing this, his father might not die, and he would no longer have the dream of traveling back in time, thus preventing him from traveling back in time.
All this time travel stuff is making my bean hurt...
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I haven't read through all the comments, but has any one else noticed that he is potentially setting himself up for a temporal paradox? This is, of course, assuming that time travel is possible in the first place, and that there is only one universe. The artcle states that the reason he got into physics in the first place was his childhood dream of traveling back in time to warn his father about the dangers of smoking and drinking. If he succeeds in doing this, his father might not die, and he would no longer have the dream of traveling back in time, thus preventing him from traveling back in time. All this time travel stuff is making my bean hurt...