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Chris Morse · 09-16-03, 10:45 AM

Watched Donnie Darko the other night and immediatley after got into a debate on time travel.
My theory is that if Time Travel was invented it would make it impossible for it to exist.
Naturally this caused some confusion, so I will explain:
If someone invented the Time Machine, unless it was kept secret and used only to go into the futute then what is probable is that the idea will be given to someone in the past. This could be to gain fortune/save time/good deeds/bad deeds....whatever.
But once it is in the past, someone has it.
They can patent it. They can claim credit it for it etc.
Now it's possible for the same thing to happen again and again.
The end result will be the same though: The person who invented it has grown up with a history of it allready being in existence. Why invent something that allready exists?
So the machine ceases to be as it is never created.
This is of course nonsense, but I was quite proud of my twisted logic and should sell the idea to James Cameron!
What do you think?

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Chris Morse Aximsite Rookie Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Merthyr Tydfil Posts: 72 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Time Travel Watched Donnie Darko the other night and immediatley after got into a debate on time travel. My theory is that if Time Travel was invented it would make it impossible for it to exist. Naturally this caused some confusion, so I will explain: If someone invented the Time Machine, unless it was kept secret and used only to go into the futute then what is probable is that the idea will be given to someone in the past. This could be to gain fortune/save time/good deeds/bad deeds....whatever. But once it is in the past, someone has it. They can patent it. They can claim credit it for it etc. Now it's possible for the same thing to happen again and again. The end result will be the same though: The person who invented it has grown up with a history of it allready being in existence. Why invent something that allready exists? So the machine ceases to be as it is never created. This is of course nonsense, but I was quite proud of my twisted logic and should sell the idea to James Cameron! What do you think? __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.