Time travel, and my problems with it

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by *BlazingQueenofHell (01), Dec 29, 2012.

  1. Yes yes, it doesn't exist yet. But, all the time travel stories made up have severe flaws... And I'm just bored as hell, so

    First off, Terminator >.< I know it was awesome and all, but here's the thing:
    If the robots are so gods damned smart, shouldn't they know that:
    If they sent back a robot to kill the guy, and they succeeded, the future guy wouldn't exist to be the rebel leader, and therefore they wouldn't have had to send the robot back in time to kill him. Instant Paradox, am I right?

    And for all other time travel stuff, they should know that even stepping on a bug could wreck the future in some way.
    I.e. say I stepped on a beetle after traveling back five hundred years. What if that beetle, after flying somewhere, scared a woman who fell into the arms of another man, and her husband got angry and killed him, and the man he then didn't kill because I killed the bug that scared the woman took over Britain and then Europe, and changed history forever
    (That is a terrible example, but hey)

    Any other problems you want to add?
     
  2. Like, there's this entire problem with time where everything is changing so when you go back, your life might be entirely different. Like the first Back to the Future. Doc shouldn't have died in the first place because he would've had the vest on, but, then again, he would've known they were coming for him, and his whole life changed because of that but retained the same thing like he'd created a parallel universe separate from his own and effectively cause a rip in the space time continuum and my brain :3. But anywho, Marty McFly <3.
     
  3. I never saw back to the future, sadly </3 I heard it was okay...
     
  4. Oh...spoiler alert. Heh. It's awesome. Watch it. Right now. .-.
     
  5. XD I can't. Don't know why, but I can't...
     
  6. There's also the fact that once time travel is invented, everything before then is changed in some fashion, but time is a weird thing in that even if you change what happened before, a different event will happen with the same result, be it that a man gets married or he dies. But also there is the detail of molecular wavelength, which if not in sync with the environment, will tear apart to bond with other molecules
     
  7. So basically all out apocalypse the instant time travel is invented
     
  8. Wonderful :3 I'll get right on it. All the more souls for me
     
  9. Unless you happen to time travel to the exact moment your molecules are in sync with everything around you
     
  10. You know what other time movie sucked?
    In Time
    .-.
     
  11. Is that the one where the guy had a digital watch that controlled time?
     
  12. No, but I saw that too.
    In Time is the one where time is currency, and also measures how long you have to live. Everyone is genetically modified to age to 25 and then stop, and your time begins
     
  13. Oh I never saw that one but I read about it somewhere
     
  14. It's on that certain third party movie app.
     
  15. In Time has 5 star ratings  but everyone is entitled to their own opinions 
     
  16. That kind of world would suck hardcore
     
  17. In movies they get it wrong like in back to the future you can't change the past cause it already happened and you already did whatever u had done in the pass to make the present as it is
     
  18. I meant u can't change the present
     
  19. That's the thing, though. If you did go back, that means you must have before, right? Wrong, as a cycle always needs to start somewhere