Why you can never change the future

Ricochet J

Ricochet J

Ricochet J

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Granted you have a heavy duty B&Q time machine in your sellar that can show you your future. Only it shows someone is going bust your arse and is going to kill you with an Ak 47, and this is going to happen the next day you see the future in the presant.

So what? The next day you wear kevlar armour and a helmet and shin pads, knee pads, you name it. You look the bees knees. Even the RAF, hell El Razur fears you.

You take all these preparations to stop this killer from shooting you. Only hang on, you still die of a gun shot regardless of taking such procedures.

Now what i'm trying to get across is: the future you see, who's to know if when you actually try to change it, you're in the process of it happening.

If you understand this thread, you'll realise the future cannot be changed! ;)
 
eXSBass said:
Granted you have a heavy duty B&Q time machine in your sellar that can show you your future. Only it shows someone is going bust your arse and is going to kill you with an Ak 47, and this is going to happen the next day you see the future in the presant.

So what? The next day you wear kevlar armour and a helmet and shin pads, knee pads, you name it. You look the bees knees. Even the RAF, hell El Razur fears you.

You take all these preparations to stop this killer from shooting you. Only hang on, you still die of a gun shot regardless of taking such procedures.

Now what i'm trying to get across is: the future you see, who's to know if when you actually try to change it, you're in the process of it happening.

If you understand this thread, you'll realise the future cannot be changed! ;)
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sounds like a convo out of human traffic :)
 
yes, but i could argue a simelar theory that it can be. ive had many a discussion with one of my closest friends on time travel. its a bit too late at night for me to recall our findings :p no doubt they fly in the face of science, string theory n all that.

EDIT: And Human Traffic, what a film! "Boomshank! Interception!"
 
If i could change the future i would dam well make sure the oil wells on earth where some how refilled and stop the coming dieoff and world recession that is coming
 
I just had to look on Wikipedia after seeing this thread.

A further suggestion related to paradoxes suggests that time travel will never exist, even if theoretically possible. The reasoning is that as long as time travel exists, history will change, and will only become static when a timeline is reached in which no time travel exists and thus no further changes can be made. Assuming there is only a single dimension of time, the timeline we perceive must be the one that exists after all changes (if any) are made, and thus we will never perceive the invention of time travel, since it will have already destabilised itself out of the timeline by the time we would have reached it.
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I reccommend you have a look, its very interesting.
 
Surly you can't go back in time either because you could kill your parents and therefore not exist to go back and kill them.
 
All I can definitely say is that Time Travel will not be possible in my own life time.
Why?
Because if it were possible there is no possible way that I would have been able to resist going back in time and telling myself.
Thus, as I haven't then it hasn't been.
 
Hamish said:
Surly you can't go back in time either because you could kill your parents and therefore not exist to go back and kill them.
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THAT is where i got confused.. i understood it until then!
 
crashuk said:
2 options either time travel past the date your meant to get shot, or time travel back and shot the guy when hes a kid.
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The first person who can think properly in this thread. Everyone else has had too much green ;).
Hamish said:
Surly you can't go back in time either because you could kill your parents and therefore not exist to go back and kill them.
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Futurama? :)
 
Red Dwarf explained this back in 1988 with the episode 'Future Echoes'.

Besides, the argument falls down because you make the assumption we can see into the future and thus have the impetus to want to change things, which we can't, so we wouldn't. So technically the only reason we can't change the future is because we don't know what to change, not because it's impossible.
 
Im with Belmit, you cant change what you dont know....

Therefore (in OP's language), if you dont know your gonna be shot, you cant wear anyting to protect yourself, and how do you know you would still get shot if you did the above???

Step away from the ganja man !!!
 
I dunno about putting all this body armour on....if I looked forward in time and saw that I was going to be shot in my cellar tomorow, then I think you'd find me on the next plane to Barbados for a short holiday.
 
Le_Petit_Lapin said:
I dunno about putting all this body armour on....if I looked forward in time and saw that I was going to be shot in my cellar tomorow, then I think you'd find me on the next plane to Barbados for a short holiday.
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Rimmer: You were wearing a hat, but it was definitely you.
(Lister removes the hat on his head, quickly)
Lister: Well there you go, I won't wear the hat. Then it can't happen, can it? I can live without a hat.
Rimmer: Lister, it *has* happened. You can't change it, any more than you can change what you had for breakfast yesterday.
Lister: Hey, it hasn't happened, has it? It has "will have going to have happened" happened, but it hasn't actually "happened" happened yet, actually.
Rimmer: Poppycock! It will be happened; it shall be going to be happening; it will be was an event that could will have been taken place in the future. Simple as that. Your bucket's been kicked, baby.
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