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So what can you tell us about the time loops?
Right. [long pause] The situation with time loops is that there are a large number of parallel timelines, lots of branches. There are no paradoxes. [draws a diagram] If you go back in time and kill your grandfather, that’s the grandfather paradox everyone talks about, there’s no paradox. When you go back and change the past, it creates a different timeline, which is a new branch of the original one. On that timeline, you’d not be born and wouldn’t exist, so that aspect of the paradox is true. Do you see? But on this timeline, which you’re on here and now, you do exist, and continue to do so. There’s no paradox. It’s simple… do you see? You’re dealing with different branches of a kind of time tree. No principles get violated. All future events are possibilities, not certainties. That’s kind of pretty important, an important... distinction. That's really all I can say about that.
originally posted by: Pinocchio
Also....
Going back in time means you just alerted god, so he casts you into a parallel universe so as to not find him out
originally posted by: orionthehunter
So in effect you can go back in time and kill your father before you were born without creating a paradox because when you go back in time you are creating a sort of parallel reality where you would cause another you never to be born. It would be like killing yourself in a parallel Earth universe. In effect, this makes it sound like time travel is possible without paradoxes because changing events in time does not change events in the original reality but in a new parallel reality created when you travel back in time. That makes it sound like not just time travel but time travel to a new parallel reality. The old parallel reality would remain unchanged. You just wouldn't be aware of it anymore. Makes me wonder if the old reality resulted in the death of everyone, if they would suddenly wake up in the altered reality not remembering the changes.
originally posted by: 2012newstart
Do different timelines of reality exist? A number of insiders say so. Among them are Henry Deacon, Dan Burisch, Andrew Basiago, Dr David Lewis Anderson, Anderson Institute.
Here is one quote from Henry Deacon interview with Project Camelot
projectcamelot.org...
So what can you tell us about the time loops?
Right. [long pause] The situation with time loops is that there are a large number of parallel timelines, lots of branches. There are no paradoxes. [draws a diagram] If you go back in time and kill your grandfather, that’s the grandfather paradox everyone talks about, there’s no paradox. When you go back and change the past, it creates a different timeline, which is a new branch of the original one. On that timeline, you’d not be born and wouldn’t exist, so that aspect of the paradox is true. Do you see? But on this timeline, which you’re on here and now, you do exist, and continue to do so. There’s no paradox. It’s simple… do you see? You’re dealing with different branches of a kind of time tree. No principles get violated. All future events are possibilities, not certainties. That’s kind of pretty important, an important... distinction. That's really all I can say about that.