A time travel modem that doesn’t have any paradox’s
I have been thinking of this model for some time and I honestly liked it and don’t know if I seen anything like this before.
A few rules before diving on how it works.
- Everything is deterministic.
- The past doesn’t change and history can not be altered.
- Every universe has its own consistent historical rules.
- No bootstrap paradoxes. Every event has a a beginning however there could be infinite chains after that first event.
Let’s say we are in T:2026 ( time 2026) in U:1 (universe 1)
And I build a Time Machine and decide to go back to T:1500 and feed a kitten then go back to T:2026.
If my universe (U:1) has this event that already happened in the past, a mysterious man feeding a kitten then disappears then when I time travel I don’t actually change the past, I fulfill it. Every event that happened has already happened and I am merely just a traveler that is fulfilling what he did in the past.
Imagine a situation where I want to go back in time but the event of me feeding a cat in 1500 never actually happened, I’d essentially be rewriting history. So what happens is that when I go from T:2026 to T:1500, I’d be unknowingly leaving U:1 and going into a universe where that event is already part of its history, a kitten being feed by me in T:1500, let’s call this universe U:2.
For me, universe hopping exists when an event that is incompatible with its universe’s history exists. It sends me into a universe where that event already happened.
An interesting thing is that if I go back to T:2026 I could actually go back to T:2026 in U:2 not U:1 (if going back to T:2026 in U:2 is compatible with its history) and I would meet U:2 version of me, So There would be two instances of me. One from U:1 and one for U:2.
I can not control universe hopping, it only exists to accommodate with me traveling into a universe where my time traveling move already exists.
Let’s imagine a situation where people in U:2 tell the second version of me, let’s call them P2 ( short for person) that you time traveled into 1500 and fed a cat. P2 would be confused and say no I didn’t time travel into 1500 to feed a cat. This would be a paradox but in reality it isn’t. The person who went back in time to feed the kitten originated from another universe. U:1. So it’s a different universal version of P.
We established that P1 which is me is now in U2. And imagine P2 decides to time travel and their time travel move is self consistent with the history of U2.
That would be there would be two P2, maybe P2A and P2B and also P1.
So a person would essentially have 2 dimensions,
P(t,u)
are they the same temporal instance from the same universe or are they flat out same person from different universes.
Now let’s imagine a situation where I discover Beethoven music and go back in time and give his own sheet music thus making him recreate his own pieces and later I discover Beethoven.
How does my model solve this lack of origin of information? Easy, the person who went back in time wasn’t actually you, it was you from another universe while when you went back in time to give the music sheet, you went into a different universe to fulfill the other universes history. That means the cause is always in the universe before it, does now it seems there is no origin to this right? No there is.
In U0 for example i discover Beethoven music and decide to go back in time to give to him. Beethoven created his music on his own this when I go back in time, I go back to U1 and thus creating an infinite chain of going back in time into a different universe to give Beethoven the pecie and later discover it.
However on U0 there was no time travel move, Beethoven created his music independently of anything. So always the chain of “bootstraps paradox” is infinite. The cause has an origin. Beethoven discovered on its own which inspired to go back in time to “give it to him” but I give it to another version of Beethoven in another universe.
Any event that could cause a paradox, is immediately not realized and is actually explained by another version of me who did the time travel move, not me.
There is no changing of the past. That event simply did not occur for it to cause a paradox. It occurred in a separate universe where YOU, the traveler, are part of its history and always were.
Of course if you’re history demands you being in it, you’ll be traveling into your own universe. That is if it is compatible history. If it’s not, it was simply not you who did the time traveling in your own universe and if you decide to time travel, you’ll be thrown into a universe where you were always a part of its history.
What if I time travel because I got the idea from me time traveling. Impossible, the desire to time travel should be independent since if I time traveled because I “should” time travel that means how did I know I should the first time, it keeps looping. The desire to time travel because I saw myself time travel means that the person I actually saw wasn’t me and was just me from another universe where they decided to time travel and my universe needed them to complete its history. That means there is a universe where I decided to time travel independently, which led me to a different universe because it’s incompatible with my universe thus creating an endless chain of getting inspired to time travel because I saw “myself” when it was just me from a different universe.
Two people from different universes could time travel in the same universe if that universe has them part of its history.
Let’s say P1 does an incompatible move in U1 and P2 does an incompatible move in U2.
They could both land in U3 and actually meet each other if the history of U3 has them both meeting.
That means that the Time Machine could only control the variable T, if I go to 2030 I got to 2030 no matter what, if I go back to 1899 I go to 1899 no matter what, the variable U however can’t be controlled. I don’t choose which universe I land in.
The laws of reality forbid me from going or traveling back or forward in time in the same universe or another universe if it isn’t part of its consistent history.
What if there was a more advanced model that could control this U variable though?
Like I put coordinates of T:2026 and U:1 for example and it needs to take me there and the machine can’t reject any requests. What would happen? Next post I guess I’ll expand on it since I came up for a solution for this technological advancement.