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Grandfather Paradox Goldy Landau
What if you could travel in time?
Einstein’s Theories of Relativity
•Space and time are linked,•Gravity changes time
•SR: Traveling to future is simple •Time Machine near speed of light
•GR: Equations say it’s possible to travel to past, but difficult.
Solutions
Garden of Forking Paths
Harry Potter
Groundhog Day
Einstein was wrong
Many Worlds Interpretation
Universe splits at point of killing Grandfather/When enters time machine
Alternate universe created
Garden of the Forking Paths
Novikov Self-Consistency Principle
If one were to go back in time it would be impossible to erase their own existence.
Grandfather dodges bullet
Story becomes part of history.
The universe continues as it should.
Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter saved himself from a Dementor attack. Hermione takes more classes Hermione sees an earlier version of herself from Hagrid’s windowHarry Potter is always saved and Hermione’s class schedule always works out
Closed Time-like Curve
Time is looped like Groundhog Day
Within black hole
Take grandfather with you
Deleted from history of original universe
Einstein Was Wrong!!
General Relativity is wrong..
“The dimension of time has been shattered; we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.”
And as well, I say, this might be the time when I can convince myself that all my pasts are burned and forgotten, as if they had never existed.
-Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler