i have one word to say, paradox
if you were to go back in time and change even the slightest thing, let alone kill someone, it would cause a ripple effect and change the world we know today. i mean has anyone seen the butterfly effect? same priciple.
also there would not be as many medical advances, women might not have gotten equality when they did if ever
Originally posted by Lord Urizen
I thought of this question for months, and still never came up with an answer I am satisfied with:[b]Presented Situation: Mankind has come up with a time machine that will allow you to travel back in time before the Holocaust began. Your mission is to go back in time and assassinate Hitler, in order to prevent the Holocaust from ever happening. If you kill Hitler, the Holocaust will not happen, and all those lives will be spared
The PROBLEM: The Time Machine will only work once, and you only have enough power and accurate coordinates to travel to the time when Hitler was an infant. You have to kill Hitler when he was 2 years old. This will be your only chance to kill him and prevent the horrible atrocity that is the Holocaust.
Question: Can you do it ? Would you kill the baby Adolf Hitler to prevent the Holocaust from ever happening ? Is killing one infant worth saving millions of lives ? [/B]
i wouldnt kill him regardless of how old he was... temporal f*ck ups n all that...
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Why stop at Hitler?Oh yeah . . . have you ever hear temporal paradoxes? I personally wouldn't kill Hitler becuase there's no way to know the real outcome.
pretty much what he said...
Originally posted by Admiral Akbar
Yeah, I agree. Killing Hitler could have a major impact to the future of our world. For better or worse who knows, but I would leave things the way they are right now.
I don't believe that going back in the past to repair a wrong is possible but I don't even think that if we could go back, that physically we could kill baby Hitler. Somehow temporally speaking, something would prevent it. Time is not linear in my opinion. I believe a greater force has established the concept of time and has created failsafes for its safeguarding
Originally posted by LordFearThat being said, you wouldn't even be able to go back in time period, since such fail-safes would sooner destroy the time traveller or is time machine than allow him/her to go back. That would eliminate not only the threat to the smooth continuity of time, but also the threat of creating a paradox within time and destroying it.
I don't believe that going back in the past to repair a wrong is possible but I don't even think that if we could go back, that physically we could kill baby Hitler. Somehow temporally speaking, something would prevent it. Time is not linear in my opinion. I believe a greater force has established the concept of time and has created failsafes for its safeguarding
Originally posted by Tangible God
That being said, you wouldn't even be able to go back in time period, since such fail-safes would sooner destroy the time traveller or is time machine than allow him/her to go back. That would eliminate not only the threat to the smooth continuity of time, but also the threat of creating a paradox within time and destroying it.
Agreed.
Has anybody seen the movie by Stephen King of the 80's? The The Langoliers