Comment Re:Parallel universe theory not an excuse (Score 1) 1191
This is not a logical conclusion. Let's say that time is 2 dimensional. You move back to your imediate past, which is reverse 1d movement and you kill your father. The act of moving into the past has now changed the future. If you now simply sped up time from your new location in the past you would never get to a future in which you would exsist. Worse still, no matter how much you would travel you would never get back to your timeline you once knew. Infact, the more you time travel, the further one would move from your original timeline. So instead of thinking of a tree where the root is the past and the branches are the future, think of it like a tree where you start at the root, the present, and when you move into the past OR the future (ie move through time) you simply move down one of the braches but no matter how you move along the branch, you are still moving away from your original root.
The only way you could return to your original time would be to time travel not in 1d (moving to your direct future or past) but in 2d time. Once you could travel in 2d time you could move accross multiple time layers instead of just chosing 1d slices in 2d time.
Does that make sense?
The only way you could return to your original time would be to time travel not in 1d (moving to your direct future or past) but in 2d time. Once you could travel in 2d time you could move accross multiple time layers instead of just chosing 1d slices in 2d time.
Does that make sense?
