The insolubility of logical contradiction of time travel

The time traveling is a saint grail of science fiction for centuries. According to Einstein’s relativity the perception of now is always changing and it moves along with time. The time is only a transcendental conception for what physic calls entropy. It’s an illusion of our perception. Things change around us rapidly, and we perceive this change as passing time. But time as such does not exist outside of our internal intuition.

We all have conception and memories about past, in memory. If we take it our personalities are completely determined by our memories, which is carrying past. We are the past and in this sense we never have a chance to live in the real present. The past, present, future are all illusions, just like the time itself. The human is the only species what can perceive time, because only the human being is capable living outside of their direct sensation, and having transcendental conceptions.

But would it ever possible to change the natural flow of time, or reverse it?

For this to work, we would have to change the laws of physics and the progress of the universe, but it has as much chances as jumping over our own shadow. And even if it would be possible strictly in theory, we would not get back that past we have already experienced once. Thereby in our understanding of the casual flow of time we can moving from past to future only.

If, on the other hand, could be possible to travel back in time, could this change the present from the past? What is an even more interesting question, how would we know that it has really changed? And what we changed is the effect or cause? Let me elaborate this.

Suppose you hear a track on the radio and you record it. And you jump with it in time machine and travel back before the first edition of the music. And finally you publish it as your own. The interesting phenomena is, that the music is the same. You changed nothing on it. You created nothing new. The only thing that has changed is the author of the music.

But who has actually created the music? Where is the entry point of?

Each event in a chain has a cause, but the chain itself hasn’t. The chain is fixed. So you no longer see the difference between cause and effect. It’s actually a loop which goes circle over and over again, without having entry and exit point.

You can’t change and create history from the past, because you do not recognize the change. And you can never make sure about you were born in altered history by default. Or perhaps even you are a product of already altered history without knowing it. You have no idea where the chain came from as only link of chain.

But another interesting question that embarrasses most scientists, philosophers, and futurists. If I could travel back in time could I eliminate my own potential to get born? Suppose I, as a time traveler, want to commit suicide that way, I prevent my parents from meeting in the past. That way I wouldn’t be born.

The contradiction is there that even if I am not born, I can’t even travel back to the past and change anything. So I can’t change the present from the past at all without getting myself into an insurmountable logical contradiction. It’s not even possible. It all makes no sense.

Science, on the other hand, has found a simple and elegant solution to the problem. The impossibility of time travel makes the answer easy. That is, there is no empirical answer, and there is no point in looking for one. Because the past does not exist. And you can’t go back to which doesn’t exist.

However, there are astonishing answers to the question that seem to be the product of fantasy. According to this, if time travel would be possible, the present could be changed from the past. That is, one way it would be possible to prevent me from being born, but only on a different time plane.

There is a rupture in the fabric of space-time and we create two parallel realities. This would, in extreme cases, lead to the total destruction of the universe. Two parallel universes would form on top of each other. In one dimension, I was born and live my life as if nothing had happened. In another dimension I was never born. And this solves the logical contradiction, if we are satisfied with this.

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