Contemplation
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Einstein claimed that the Grandfather Paradox was not solvable, and it meant that time travel to the past was actually impossible.
It may in fact be the case that it is impossible, even if time travel is possible. What if there was a work around to this problem. What if instead of attempting to kill your own grandfather, you attempted to kill your great uncle or some other random stranger whom you have never met?
It seems to stand to reason that someone should be able to accomplish that goal. What if you never met your great uncle? If you never met, then changing the past in this way wouldn’t have much of an effect on the present state of things.
We live our day to day lives going to sleep each night and waking up every morning as if the past really didn’t influence us much at all. We are creatures of habit, and we begin to develop daily routines depending on our current situation.
What if one year your great uncle decided to send you a birthday card with a check in it? Would this change things? I believe it would. In this case, you would no longer be able to kill your great uncle. Then what if you decided to send yourself the same birthday card with the same amount of money written on the check with his own handwriting? It starts to seem more likely that you would then be able to kill him.
Then it appears as though your ability to be able to travel back in time to kill your great uncle depends on what decisions you end up making about your future.
It may in fact be the case that it is impossible, even if time travel is possible. What if there was a work around to this problem. What if instead of attempting to kill your own grandfather, you attempted to kill your great uncle or some other random stranger whom you have never met?
It seems to stand to reason that someone should be able to accomplish that goal. What if you never met your great uncle? If you never met, then changing the past in this way wouldn’t have much of an effect on the present state of things.
We live our day to day lives going to sleep each night and waking up every morning as if the past really didn’t influence us much at all. We are creatures of habit, and we begin to develop daily routines depending on our current situation.
What if one year your great uncle decided to send you a birthday card with a check in it? Would this change things? I believe it would. In this case, you would no longer be able to kill your great uncle. Then what if you decided to send yourself the same birthday card with the same amount of money written on the check with his own handwriting? It starts to seem more likely that you would then be able to kill him.
Then it appears as though your ability to be able to travel back in time to kill your great uncle depends on what decisions you end up making about your future.