Time Travel Paradox

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A baby girl is mysteriously dropped off at an orphanage in Cleveland in 1945. "Jane" grows up lonely and dejected, not knowing who her parents are, until one day in 1963 she is strangely attracted to a drifter. She falls in love with him. But just when things are finally looking up for Jane, a series of disasters strike. First, she becomes pregnant by the drifter, who then disappears. Second, during the complicated delivery, doctors find that Jane has both sets of sex organs, and to save her life, they are forced to surgically convert "her" to a "him." Finally, a mysterious stranger kidnaps her baby from the delivery room.

Reeling from these disasters, rejected by society, scorned by fate, "he" becomes a drunkard and drifter. Not only has Jane lost her parents and her lover, but he has lost his only child as well. Years later, in 1970, he stumbles into a lonely bar, called Pop's Place, and spills out his pathetic story to an elderly bartender. The sympathetic bartender offers the drifter the chance to avenge the stranger who left her pregnant and abandoned, on the condition that he join the "time travelers corps." Both of them enter a time machine, and the bartender drops off the drifter in 1963. The drifter is strangely attracted to a young orphan woman, who subsequently becomes pregnant.

The bartender then goes forward 9 months, kidnaps the baby girl from the hospital, and drops off the baby in an orphanage back in 1945. Then the bartender drops off the thoroughly confused drifter in 1985, to enlist in the time travelers corps. The drifter eventually gets his life together, becomes a respected and elderly member of the time travelers corps, and then disguises himself as a bartender and has his most difficult mission: a date with destiny, meeting a certain drifter at Pop's Place in 1970.

The question is: Who is Jane's mother, father, grandfather, grand mother, son, daughter, granddaughter, and grandson? The girl, the drifter, and the bartender, of course, are all the same person. These paradoxes can made your head spin, especially if you try to untangle Jane's twisted parentage. If we drawJane's family tree, we find that all the branches are curled inward back on themselves, as in a circle. We come to the astonishing conclusion that she is her own mother and father! She is an entire family tree unto herself.

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ertaboy356b

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All people had their own Descendants... Its just that, when people come and go in a time machine, they kind of mess up the time order..
 

Miz

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This story is really cool

But what if something else happened XD
Where they didn't go back in time?
 

Ninva

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Kurt Vonnegut once suggested the idea that there is no past, present, or future. There was/is/will be only one time, and that is the current. You can't go back in the past because that event has and will always happen. The same for the future. It's a theory that is explained in Slaughterhouse Five and suggested in Deadeye Dick.
 

Varine

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Kurt Vonnegut once suggested the idea that there is no past, present, or future. There was/is/will be only one time, and that is the current. You can't go back in the past because that event has and will always happen. The same for the future. It's a theory that is explained in Slaughterhouse Five and suggested in Deadeye Dick.

Einstein said that time viewing was possible (I think), and as Einstein is a paradigm of geniusity I believe him more. And MIT is making a Antimatter Time Viewing Device.
 

Miz

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Time travel is possible... We can send 1 second of a song, 1 nano second back...
So Really we can send information in the form radioactive waves but not for very long.

Really, ATM, going to the future is impossible only going back in time (1 nanosecond is)
 

Ninva

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Time travel is possible... We can send 1 second of a song, 1 nano second back...
So Really we can send information in the form radioactive waves but not for very long.

Really, ATM, going to the future is impossible only going back in time (1 nanosecond is)

Wait, how? That makes no sense, it's so vague.
 

Pineapple

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Ken,

Is impossible to go back.

Its possible to go forward. Astronaugts have gone forward in time, but a second or so.

Closer to light speed you travel the faster time travels around you.
 

13lade619

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my personal theory on time travel:

you cannot see your future self.
since you go forward in time, you leave the timeline.
you disapear from the moment you go into the time machine.
you only re-appear when you are in the future.
it means that you did not exist from the time you left till the time you arrived.

if you seeing your future self go back to the past.
if your future self travels back in time to see you,in the future you yourself would go back in time.
the the past self you saw will also go back in time someday...
 

Sim

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If you go near a Black Hole, time definitely gets altered.

If we could recreate such a phenomena (Hmm... I deeply wonder how :eek:), time could be altered just the same way: by using Force! :D
 
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