time travel.
we’ve all seen it before in films, tv, books. a character goes back in time and alters the future. in one episode of futurama i was watching, fry kills his grandfather in the past, leading to the idea that he would erase his future self and cease to exist. this makes no fucking sense. if you killed your grandfather before the point of your creation, you would not only cease to exist, but your future self would no longer exist to go back in time to kill your grandfather. it’s called the grandfather paradox.
so what happens if the grandfather paradox occurs? either our universe implodes or alternate timelines and realities are created that split off our current reality. many argue that the grandfather paradox disproves the idea of time travel entirely. some (palahniuk) believe severing a humans beginning allows the human to have no end, thus making them immortal and having relatively little affect on our reality.
i’ve just been chewing on a ton of ideas about time travel lately from some stuff i’ve been reading. another interesting idea is luminum time. it’s those moments where time seems to stand still, for example in a car crash. some believe that time is malleable in these moments and that these moments are where time travel may be achievable. read up on it.
i think i think too much.
