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Skans » 03 Feb 2023, 11:42 am » wrote: ↑

03 Feb 2023, 11:42 am

The scenario is a curious one and an interesting one to me.  I am not concerned whether someone else has thought of something similar, but I can assure you I did not "cut&paste" it from somewhere. 

You have free will to choose to answer it or not.  I have read all of the answers and find them quite interesting.  To be fair, I even answered it myself.  But, if you are offended by it, or fear the answer might reveal something to a part of you that you keep closed off, or to others, then don't answer it.

Irrelevant.  Clearly this is not an exercise in reality.  If you thought it was, then you are mistaken.

All  of this is highly speculative and pure conjecture on your part.  But, even more so, it is completely irrelevant.  This is far from an exercise in how time travel might work.

More irrelevant speculation.  I would be more than glad to discuss time-travel paradoxes in another thread, but that's not what this is about. 

Writers, good ones anyway, effectively use time travel to explore a particular aspect of the human condition.  If I want to know more about the technical feasibility or impossibility of time travel, I would dedicate my life to studying quantum mechanics. The question I asked was a metaphysical one, not intended to solicit theories about  quantum mechanics.

While not relevant to the discussion, I do not believe that time exists.  It is an imaginary measurement construct of humans. It is nothing more than one aspect of our incomplete way of attempting to describe how things happen in relation to other things.

I am disheartened by the fact that you, an educator, seem to completely misunderstand what good science fiction is really all about.