You've created a time paradox!

[doctor-nerd.livejournal.com]

Hypothetically..what if something from the future got to someone in the past and it was far more advanced than the pasts current level of technology? Would there be any repercussions? Would it affect my future, or would it create another timeline? This should not be reminding me of Back To The Future.

[Locked to Solid Snake]
Snake, I still haven't recovered those blueprints or the other information he took from me. But, theres another one. Volgin. Ring a bell?

[/Locked]

Comments

[lightning-larx.livejournal.com]

I'd say from experience that it'd split off into another timeline.

[doctor-nerd.livejournal.com]

..Hm. But I can't be responsible for this other timeline!

[lightning-larx.livejournal.com]

Who said you had to?

[doctor-nerd.livejournal.com]

He stole my things and made off into the past. I lost a fight..to a cat.

[lightning-larx.livejournal.com]

Well, you just suck, don't you.

[needsmapquest.livejournal.com]

Yep!

[doctor-nerd.livejournal.com]

Yep what?

[needsmapquest.livejournal.com]

You're screwed.

[doctor-nerd.livejournal.com]

..A-am I? Has this happened elsewhere?

[xx-bloody-jack.livejournal.com]

I'm from a distant past in my world but I have technology from the future of my world.... I've never really thought about that...

[doctor-nerd.livejournal.com]

..Your world. So many different worlds!
What if each was spawned by some one or something travelling through time and changing one thing, say, giving a local a laptop and some kind of connection to the internet.

[xx-bloody-jack.livejournal.com]

... Then my world is probably in for some trouble...

[doctor-nerd.livejournal.com]

Who's to say your world isn't my own? What if whatever happened because of whatever meddling hasn't greatly affected the future?

Eh, it's pointless arguing what ifs. There are too many factors. I just feel like we should have a set of rules, or a code of conduct.

[puzzlemasters.livejournal.com]

I'd imagine there /would/ be repercussions . . . The trick is /knowing/ if there are. It wouldn't affect your /future/ so much as your past and present, I would think. For you, I'd imagine from your point of view, any change would have already taken place, or else some variation would have split off in the distant past - another timeline, as you said . . .

Forgive me - I wish I could be of more help.

[doctor-nerd.livejournal.com]

So far I haven't noticed anything, but who knows if I would be able to. I'm..not exactly a time traveller.

..No, any input is nice. Thanks

[the-air-corsair.livejournal.com]

I suppose that would depend on whether it could be adapted. For instance, the technology of my time mostly runs on Magic. Even if the machines could be transplanted to another world, they most likely don't have the energy source to run them.

[doctor-nerd.livejournal.com]

Hm, so maybe they wont be able to use what they brought back without expending too much energy..

[seventh-gospel.livejournal.com]

I think the technology of my world is pretty damn advanced. If something from the future came here, it probably wouldn't change a damn thing.

[doctor-nerd.livejournal.com]

What if something from the future of your world was even more advanced?

[seventh-gospel.livejournal.com]

So?

[doctor-nerd.livejournal.com]

Well wouldn't you worry that it might drastically change the natural course of things?

[philoxidizes]

It's hard to say. Hypothetically, you would be unaware of any changes, because any difference it makes will have already been made the moment it happens. You would not know what your 'normal' timeline would contain, so it would be impossible for you to say one way or another if a change had occurred or not. To know, you would most likely either have to have previously traveled to your future and retain all memories of the journey, or have the ability to view timelines from outside; this would require theories about the nature of time being a sort of bubble in which you can travel many ways to be confirmed, or another suitable hypothesis to be proposed.

But then again, this is all conjecture. I'm no expert.

[doctor-nerd.livejournal.com]

Well, if I were the source of changes in the past, because someone stole something from me, then I might have memories of what occurred before and what had changed because of my actions. Or inactions.

Unfortunately it could be that something changed, I just..don't know how to go about looking things up.

[canhaswrenchpls.livejournal.com]

but if something travels from the future to the past, surely it'd already have always been in the past, so it won't be from the future any more, so it won't have travelled into the past, except it already has and...

eeeeh...

[doctor-nerd.livejournal.com]

Confusing isn't it? I'm not sure how it works except for the fact that it has.