Nicky: Back to the Future and Time Travel

Guys, this is it. This is the day that Marty Mcfly comes to the future. On October 21st, 2015 at 4:29 pm.

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Think about time travel though. Lets say you invent a time machine and then lets say you made a HUGE mistake a few years back. So what do you do? You travel back in time and fix it.

But when you think about it, the mistake is what lead you to travel in time in the first place. Your entire reason for traveling back in time is because of this one mistake, which you have just prevented from ever happening.

So then your past self would have no reason to make a time machine because there is no reason to fix something that never happening. But if you don't go back in time then the mistake was never fixed which creates the same problem all over again, ending in a black hole and the world destroyed maybe.

Are you confused yet? Ok let me try again.

Here is a story about Bob. He is 24 years old and living in his mothers basement. A Year ago he worked at a book store, but one morning he was late to work because his alarm didn't go off, which him being late meant he got fired.

Out of this frustration he stole a time machine so that he could go back in time to wake himself up.  Once he wakes himself up, a chain of events start up though.

He never gets fired, he never lives in his mothers basement, and he never steals a time machine.

But if he doesn't steal a time machine then he never wakes himself up, which means he gets fired. But once he gets fired he steals a time machine and goes to wake himself up which means he never had to steal the machine; but that means he never wakes himself up so he gets fired. This all leads to the same problem over and over and over again, in a never ending cycle

Which means this entire scenario isn't possible, but at the same time it is possible. Something that happened, didn't happen, but happened all over again. Him waking himself up would result in a paradox which could lead to the end of the world or a black hole forming, destroying everything.

Now that may sound extreme, but it's possible.

But what if it was something no one noticed?

Lets say Bob stole a time machine, but it sent him back three million years instead of one. Lets say what while he was in the past, he stepped on a butterfly. This butterfly was going to kill a dinosaur, but instead it killed half of the world. Which leads to a number of events that would lead to a new world and new people.

That would mean you would have different friends, family, neighbors, government leaders, governments themselves, and different lives.

This is called The Butterfly Effect.

The Butterfly Effect:  noun (With reference to chaos theory) the phenomenon whereby a minute localized change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere.

Everything would have changed because of one little thing. Maybe in the original time life your spouse was going to kill you, but instead your marry them. Maybe you were not going to be born. Maybe a lot of different things were going to happen, but this is what we have now. We have a very different world now.

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SO that's it for me guys, I hope you have a wonderful day and happy back to the future day!!

xoxo

~Nicky