Isn’t that a paradox though. In order to travel into the future to meet you you would have to first be born, if they met you and then decided you weren’t worth it then who was it they met?
Depends on which movie/TV show/book/etc. we’re looking at for time travel mechanics. Nice thing about fiction is that you can put together the story and then work backwards with all the egghead stuff.
Paradoxes seem to self resolve, if you go back and prevent your own birth, it’s almost like that’s a different reality and the act of time travel has transported you into it. You are matter and energy from another time/system that is modifying the energy and matter in the system you’ve been transported to. The past you’ve traveled to is the present and your actions impact the future of that system.
As far as I see it, any time you transport yourself back in time you’re essentially cloning yourself into that time and you’re not going anywhere if you prevent your own birth. There just won’t be a baby born with your name on it.
Isn’t that a paradox though. In order to travel into the future to meet you you would have to first be born, if they met you and then decided you weren’t worth it then who was it they met?
Depends on which movie/TV show/book/etc. we’re looking at for time travel mechanics. Nice thing about fiction is that you can put together the story and then work backwards with all the egghead stuff.
Paradoxes seem to self resolve, if you go back and prevent your own birth, it’s almost like that’s a different reality and the act of time travel has transported you into it. You are matter and energy from another time/system that is modifying the energy and matter in the system you’ve been transported to. The past you’ve traveled to is the present and your actions impact the future of that system.
As far as I see it, any time you transport yourself back in time you’re essentially cloning yourself into that time and you’re not going anywhere if you prevent your own birth. There just won’t be a baby born with your name on it.