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Come on, just humor me. Following my first example, why couldn't I visit my younger self and give him my life research? What physical law could possibly prevent
by ASalazarMX 8y ago
Come on, just humor me. Following my first example, why couldn't I visit my younger self and give him my life research? What physical law could possibly prevent us from working together and building a second time machine in a few years, thus guaranteeing a paradox?
I understand why I shouldn't be able to accidentally cause a paradox, but if I know how to cause one and have the means to do it, and the universe is mindless, what could stop me?
- Pharmakon 8y agoStephen Hawking posited that the first and only thing a time machine would do is detonate as a direct consequence of virtual particles reaching arbitrarily high energy density through repeated loops. If you don’t like various chronology protection conjecture, fair enough, but building a time machine means something unless you’re inserting magic into it. Our universe appears to lack the necessary extreme curvature or negative mass to sustain CTC’s. In the absence of such natural curvature or means to create it artificially and stabilize it, the whole question is a non-starter.