Time travel is not only complicated on a scientific level but a philosophical one. It raises questions about the intricacies of Time itself and whether or not Time functions on a A, B or even C series. It provokes us to ask whether or not “future,” “past,” and “present” are valid terms that can be applied to Time and if they are, whether or not all, some, or none these Times exist equally. While such questions have a significant weight in evaluating the logical consistency of Time travel, please note that they are not this paper’s central focus. Rather I will spend most of this paper focusing on explaining the logical impossibilities of Time travel through more concrete examples I have created and subsequent logical reasoning.
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Also, if the journal does not have entries, it implies that the time traveler cannot exist as an older version of the past self because if the years between 2005 and 2015 have yet to happen, it is impossible from them to be as an entity that has memories of these years. Since both arguments are logically sound, we must conclude that both are true. Thus, we reach the conclusion that Time travel proves to be contradictory yet again. And more than that, unlike with my failed exam example, it is from this contradiction there is no escape, meaning that Time travel to the past, in any fashion, is logically …show more content…
And while I acknowledge these possibilities, I cannot really view them as anything more than a flimsy effort to make Time travel look realistic. While my interpretation of Time is congruent to human experience (we cannot interact with the past and future in the same way we do the present, we have memories and evidence of the past but not of the future, we become “older” the longer we live, etc.), other theories that “support” the possibility of Time travel do not. The alternate universe theory requires that two versions of me exist without either affecting the other. For instance, if I die in one alternate universe, I continue to live in another. The same is true for the branching Timeline
The concept of …show more content…
Also, if the journal does not have entries, it implies that the time traveler cannot exist as an older version of the past self because if the years between 2005 and 2015 have yet to happen, it is impossible from them to be as an entity that has memories of these years. Since both arguments are logically sound, we must conclude that both are true. Thus, we reach the conclusion that Time travel proves to be contradictory yet again. And more than that, unlike with my failed exam example, it is from this contradiction there is no escape, meaning that Time travel to the past, in any fashion, is logically …show more content…
And while I acknowledge these possibilities, I cannot really view them as anything more than a flimsy effort to make Time travel look realistic. While my interpretation of Time is congruent to human experience (we cannot interact with the past and future in the same way we do the present, we have memories and evidence of the past but not of the future, we become “older” the longer we live, etc.), other theories that “support” the possibility of Time travel do not. The alternate universe theory requires that two versions of me exist without either affecting the other. For instance, if I die in one alternate universe, I continue to live in another. The same is true for the branching Timeline