/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.3831886]

what would happen if I went back in time and killed myself?

[EK !EKFQOBUFnQ No.3831900]

depends.
back to the future style time travel, or terminator series style time travel?

[Anonymous No.3831904]

>>3831900
What's the difference?

[Anonymous No.3831915]

>>3831900
>>3831904
Both have contradicted each other between movies.

[Anonymous No.3831922]

>>3831900
>>3831904
Both have contradicted themselves between sequels.

[Anonymous No.3831923]

you can't so there's no answer

[Anonymous No.3831957]

Probably something absolutely horrible, but only to the present you. Your current existence negates the possibility of you dying at an earlier date. Anything that you tried to do would fail.

And since there is absolutely no reaason why present-you can not die, you may fuck yourself over.

[& !!tSqR6hj9NpI No.3831965]

Depends,

1) If you're alive, you fuck up trying to kill yourself somehow, and don't actually change anything (Your going back in time was pre-determined)
2) You kill yourself, but stay alive, and create an alternate reality
3) You kill yourself, and promptly cease to exist

[EK !EKFQOBUFnQ No.3831966]

>>3831904
erm, with the back to the future version, if you fuck with events in the past, then you can stop your own existence and fade away. (e.g kill yourself, kill your parents, stop your conception in some way, you then cease to exist)

with the terminator version events are basically set in stone and you will find yourself unable to change the past in any way because that just isnt how things happened, and you know it isnt.
in fact you may end up causing those events to happen just as you remember the future being, because fate.

[EK !EKFQOBUFnQ No.3831973]

>>3831965
1 = terminator version,
3 = BTTF version.
2 is...erm, kinda like BTTF2 i guess. alternate timeline shit.

[Anonymous No.3831986]

Why, you'd die.

[Anonymous No.3831988]

>if

[Anonymous No.3831991]

>>3831966
Then, If I go back 10 years in time and kill myself and fade away (assuming the first option), what would happen to those 10 years I was alive? Would they exist anymore?

[Anonymous No.3831994]

You branch off into an alternate reality and die but you in the future will continue to live.

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[Anonymous No.3832001]

>>3831994
So if I come back in time, which "me" would I be? The one alive or dead?

[EK !EKFQOBUFnQ No.3832009]

>>3831991
no, they wouldnt exist, future would play out differently. the 10 years would still exist and be the same for most people, its just that any events where you acted, would be different as you dont exist anymore.

also,
Mr mcfly: "honey, don't you think it's a little strange that our son has grown up to look EXACTLY like that fucking kid that we were hanging out with for 2 days about 20 years ago, and then suddenly disapeared?"

[EK !EKFQOBUFnQ No.3832020]

>>3832001
with BBTF method, there is no physical thing killing the future you, so you stay alive. theres no reason to just fade away, so alternate timeline, and you are the future you
(consider that you could also go a few seconds back in time, and use the time machine as a cloning device because the 'you' from a few second ago would still be there, and then just stop the old you from entering the time machine. there are now 2 you's.
problem, physics?)

[Anonymous No.3832041]

>>3832009
So every time I go back in time, i'm "restarting" the universe (from the point I changed something)? If things need to happen again, since they are going to change from what they were before I killed myself, then everything must happen again to see what will happen without me.

[Anonymous No.3832077]

>>3832020
How would I know which timeline to choose?

[Anonymous No.3832118]

> if I went back in time and killed myself?

then (in this timeline) you would never have existed

[Hououin Kyoma No.3832161]

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