Paradox Of Time Travel Essay

Time travel is a science fictional idea where a person can travel into the past through some type of time travel machine or method. Time travel is not flying to a country where they might be several days and hours ahead. Time travel occurs when there is a discrepancy between external time and personal time because arrival and departure are separated by two unequal amounts of time(notes). Personal time is time one can see through a wristwatch and external time is the time it takes to arrive to the certain part in the past one wants to go to. This is important to understand because personal time is not really time, but it plays the role in the time travelers life that time plays in the life of a common person (notes). For instance, if I were …show more content…
This is a paradox because I came to the conclusion that the daughter would not exist if she really killed her father because her father would not have been able to have a child. This would have occurred because something happened along the way that did not allow the father to be killed; this event is called a strange coincidence. This idea goes hand in hand with the idea killing my grandfather before he met my grandmother. It all comes down to the contradiction of not being able to exist with a person missing in the family lineage. For instance, without the grandfather, there wouldn 't be a mother or a father to help bare the daughter. Therefore, one can come to the conclusion that time travel is logically possible but logically impossible all at the same time. This paradox if true would violate the law of non-contradiction. The grandfather would somehow both survive to become a parent and not survive. If contradictory situations are impossible, and if time travelers could create contradictory situations, then time travel is