so a question has been on my mind recently…is time travel a plausible concept, or just science fiction?
lmk what you guys think! personally, i think it is just science fiction. here’s why: (ill try to keep it short for you guys, lmao)
imagine that, for some reason, you get a time travel machine and decide to travel back in time to kill your grandfather (i dont condone such acts, lmao, this is just an example).
the problem is, though, that if you killed your grandfather, your grandfather couldnt have been there to give birth to your mother. and if your mother does not exist, neither could you.
but then again, if you don’t exist, you couldn’t have traveled back in time in the first place, proving time travel as more or less science fiction.
even though one might argue, “but incognitoes, why would you want to kill your grandfather? in what scenario would you do it non-hypothetically?” this can be proved wrong.
the impact your choices make in the past, even really small, will make a change- whether large or small, a change nevertheless, which will somehow make your present life not possible/plausible to happen, while it has.
this paradox, in my opinion, demonstrates why time travel cannot be a plausible future…but what do you guys think?
- a plausible concept,
- or science fiction?