Comments on: Simulating The Grandfather Paradox

By: colonel cool

colonel cool — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:25:22 +0000

yay i hope you are a stargate fan

By: CelticMinstrel

CelticMinstrel — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:30:59 +0000

Perhaps this simulation isn’t asking the wrong question, as Ryan implies, but rather showing that the resolution of the grandfather paradox requires two separate timelines.

By: Thomas Michael

Thomas Michael — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:07:56 +0000

I think I’ll have another beer.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:59:04 +0000

You’re simulation reveals some interesting implications for the view that time travel can include multiple time-lines. I think that the Grandfather paradox might prove more difficult to resolve (and simulate), however, if there is only one time-line being considered. Indeed, I think this may be the interpretation that most people subscribe to when learning about this paradox, i.e. that the homicidal grandson uses the time machine to move about the very same time-line in which he was originally begotten.

I think you’re simulation, while interesting, doesn’t answer the original question of the paradox: can the grandson kill HIS grandfather before the grandson’s parent is conceived? You’re simulation of separate time-lines strikes me as answering this question instead: “Can the grandson kill someone who is exactly like his grandfather except that he resides in a separate timeline?” And the answer to that question, as you have shown, is yes.

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Time Travel, Temporal Anomalies, & Television : FanaticSpace — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:13:14 +0000

[...] Grandfather Paradox is puzzled out (perhaps unnecessarily, see this article by Stephen Cass, Sr. Editor of Discover Magazine) by Carter, who explains that since Cam was in the wormhole when the timeline shifted, he could be [...]

By: Will the LHC’s Future Cancel Out Its Past? | Discoblog | Discover Magazine

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:43:44 +0000

[...] ever being used. Harvard post-doc and CERN collaborator Kevin Black relates their argument to the grandfather paradox—that a particle like the Higgs boson goes back in time and prevents its own birth (i.e. the [...]

By: Tom Ulcak

Tom Ulcak — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:44:14 +0000

This has never puzzled me, because it seems logical to me that their exists in the past many, many grandfathers of the time traveler. And many, many timelines or world lines that all interconnect. The time traveler could never go back to kill the grandfather version that gave rise to his/her existence, because if they didn’t exist, they couldn’t kill that version of the grandfather. It seems pretty clear to me.

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Solutions Blog » Discover Magazine Explores "Stargate: Continuum" — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:35:18 +0000

[...] to explain the concepts of Time Travel in Time Travel Stargate Style and the Grandfather Paradox in Simulating The Grandfather Paradox. If these concepts give you a headache, don’t go there, but if you’re interested in [...]

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:12:04 +0000

… Whoa …