As hard as I tried I could not come up with 101 problems, so it is really more like five, but “5 Theoretical Problems with Time Travel” is not nearly as dynamic of a title. For years, philosophers have been theorizing about the possibility of time travel, and they have been particularly concerned with rather or not you could go back in time and kill yourself as an infant. I am sure this fascination has helped to greatly fund the therapy industry, but aside from that, I believe it has overlooked a lot of issues that could come with time travel. There are concerns that should be taken into account before everyone starts concerning themselves with the possibility of autoinfanticide. So, I present to you “101” problems with time travel.
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However, since killing babyself is a theoretical possibility, that implies your actions in the past will affect your present. So there is even the slightest possibility you could unintentionally affect your current time in a way you did not intend to. So, your actions could eventually affect the way your time machine works and you could be unable to return to the time you rightly belong in. This, in turn, would cause more and more discrepancies. My personal opinion is this is how Donald Trump was elected, someone messed up the past and it skewed our present into …show more content…
There could be many unintended consequences of time travel. We could spread germs and diseases to generations that never should have been exposed to them, so they have no immunity. We could get stuck in the past, and continue to cause more and more problems the longer we are there. There is also the big issue of actually being able to change what has already happened since the past has been predetermined. If we ignore all this, there are still a few alternatives that may given the opportunity to kill our babyselves, should we so desire. One option is to ensure the parents will go back in time and bring pre-death baby back to their present. Another possibility would be being reanimated in between the time you kill yourself and the time you would go in the time machine. The final alternative would be “dying” without remaining dead. If you were in a state where you were able to be resuscitated, you would still have “killed” yourself, without the long term effects of actually being dead, leaving you with the free time to go back in your time machine later in your
Assuming …show more content…
However, since killing babyself is a theoretical possibility, that implies your actions in the past will affect your present. So there is even the slightest possibility you could unintentionally affect your current time in a way you did not intend to. So, your actions could eventually affect the way your time machine works and you could be unable to return to the time you rightly belong in. This, in turn, would cause more and more discrepancies. My personal opinion is this is how Donald Trump was elected, someone messed up the past and it skewed our present into …show more content…
There could be many unintended consequences of time travel. We could spread germs and diseases to generations that never should have been exposed to them, so they have no immunity. We could get stuck in the past, and continue to cause more and more problems the longer we are there. There is also the big issue of actually being able to change what has already happened since the past has been predetermined. If we ignore all this, there are still a few alternatives that may given the opportunity to kill our babyselves, should we so desire. One option is to ensure the parents will go back in time and bring pre-death baby back to their present. Another possibility would be being reanimated in between the time you kill yourself and the time you would go in the time machine. The final alternative would be “dying” without remaining dead. If you were in a state where you were able to be resuscitated, you would still have “killed” yourself, without the long term effects of actually being dead, leaving you with the free time to go back in your time machine later in your