Resolving the Grandfather Paradox
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Laniakea — 1 year ago(March 14, 2025 01:52 PM)
The Grandfather Paradox is a time travel paradox that questions the possibility of altering the past, suggesting that a time traveler who kills their own grandfather would prevent their own birth, creating a logical inconsistency.
The Grandfather Paradox is only a paradox if time is a fundamental, physical property of the universe. But if time is emergent, as in a measure of the universe's ever-changing state being driven by entropy, then the paradox disappears.
What we think of as "going back in time" isn't actually traveling to the past. Instead, it's reconfiguring the present state of the universe to match a previous one. You're not moving backward in time, you're bringing the past forward.
In this way the original past has still occurred, including your birth, so nothing you do in this recreated state can change that. The paradox is gone. You are now free to kill your grandfather. -
Wu Ming — 1 year ago(March 14, 2025 02:19 PM)
Laniakea March 14, 2025 10:52 PM
Member since June 9, 2017
"The Grandfather Paradox is a time travel paradox that questions the possibility of altering the past, suggesting that a time traveler who kills their own grandfather would prevent their own birth, creating a logical inconsistency."
The Grandfather Paradox is only a paradox if time is a fundamental, physical property of the universe. But if time is emergent, as in a measure of the universe's ever-changing state being driven by entropy, then the paradox disappears.
What we think of as "going back in time" isn't actually traveling to the past. Instead, it's reconfiguring the present state of the universe to match a previous one. You're not moving backward in time, you're bringing the past forward.
In this way the original past has still occurred, including your birth, so nothing you do in this recreated state can change that. The paradox is gone. You are now free to kill your grandfather.
Yah, interesting Wiki-article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_paradox#Consistency_paradox
In a way it's like these people in the video below.
As if they met slippery roads the first time in their life.
Winter Madness on icy Roads
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Wu Ming — 1 year ago(March 14, 2025 03:06 PM)
Laniakea March 14, 2025 11:22 PM
Member since June 9, 2017
Thanks. I'll edit my idea into that article later.
You're welcome. 🫂
Did you also consider
Schrödinger's cat
in
your
idea?
This one
is a great new compilation too. 
100 incredible Lightning Strikes
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Laniakea — 1 year ago(March 14, 2025 03:25 PM)
I haven't given Schrödinger's cat any thought as of yet, but stay tuned. This idea is part of a broader theory about the nature of reality at its most fundamental level and it provides intuitive solutions to many longstanding problems in science, including the mysteries of quantum mechanics. I shall reveal more in the coming days. Only on Filmboards.
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Wu Ming — 1 year ago(March 14, 2025 04:06 PM)
Laniakea March 15, 2025 12:25 AM
Member since June 9, 2017
I haven't given Schrödinger's cat any thought as of yet, but stay tuned. This idea is part of a broader theory about the nature of reality at its most fundamental level and it provides intuitive solutions to many longstanding problems in science, including the mysteries of quantum mechanics. I shall reveal more in the coming days. Only on Filmboards.
And you mixed also a little epistemology and empiricism into
your
idea.
Ultimately, you're looking for the all-encompassing
'formula'
.
A
'formula'
that humanity is searching for since its inception.
"Dass ich erkenne, was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält."
(That I recognize what holds the world together at its core.)
(Goethe's Faust)
Perhaps Filmboards (you) is the ruby in the mountain of rocks.
Or just the next
Cracker Jack box
.
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Wu Ming — 1 year ago(March 17, 2025 11:54 AM)
MovieManCin2 March 17, 2025 06:18 PM
Member since February 19, 2018
Since backwards time travel is impossible, any discussion of it is an exercise in futility.
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. MAGA! FAFO! Enjoy the next four years, Leftards!
Even this so-called
"Natural Law"
is no longer certain.
Negative Time
https://www.filmboards.com/t/Science/--Negative-Time---3533722/
And remember your own signature
"Schrödinger's cat"
.
Schrödinger's Cat
A cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source connected to a Geiger counter are placed in a sealed box.
As illustrated, the quantum description uses a superposition of an alive cat and one that has died.
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MovieManCin2 — 1 year ago(March 17, 2025 11:13 PM)
Yep,
sure is.
Not even
quantum mechanics
can achieve backwards time travel.
And yes, I know all about Schrodinger's Cat, Shaquatta.
MAGA! FAFO!
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder. 
–> Loki?