Thread: Seriousness Is Time Travel possible
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Old 04-05-2009, 12:41 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
I spun this thread off the sf to fact thread because I wanted to continue the discussion.

The most recent episode of Lost did a really awesome sub-thread on this. (Since Lost's plot includes time travel). Hugo and Miles were discussing the ramifications of them killing someone in the past that they knew to exist in the future.

I subscribe to Miles view basically (assuming for a minute that time travel is even possible) that the past happened. You can't change the future. What ever you do in the past already happened. So, history knows you are coming, and you already did what you did.

Hence the episode name of "What happened, happened." I thought it was one of the best episodes. And no, please don't make this thread about Lost.

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But what if, as some writers have suggested, when you return to the present, it is an alternate universe present to which you return? You did not affect your original present but instead spawned a new universe.

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