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Logic Alert

posted 7 years ago by cfinnegan1976
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This entire crappy movie is a paradox! You can't go back in time to create a situation that will lead to you going back in time to create a situation... yeah, get it yet? It's amazing how people screw this stuff up so badly all the time.

The entire premise of this movie is impossible from the very start. On the upside, it basically allows for unlimited artistic liberties thanks to such flawed logic. Oh yeah, always remember to throw in a swear word here and there for no apparent reason to be 'cool'. I can't believe people fund this crap!

So many better stories out there that never even get a chance at being made. It's sad really.

[–] carl_johnson-1 7 years ago

It's called a bootstrap paradox. Popular in fiction for decades.

[–] Jay_Jay1234 7 years ago

You can't go back in time to create a situation that will lead to you going back in time to create a situation...

In the casual loop theory you can. Since you can’t go back in time anyway, there are different theories of time travel. The movie was based on one of them.

A causal loop, in the context of time travel or retrocausality, is a sequence of events (actions, information, objects, people)[ in which an event is among the causes of another event, which in turn is among the causes of the first-mentioned event. Such causally-looped events then exist in spacetime, but their origin cannot be determined. A hypothetical example of a causality loop is given of a billiard ball striking its past self: the billiard ball moves in a path towards a time machine, and the future self of the billiard ball emerges from the time machine before its past self enters it, giving its past self a glancing blow, altering the past ball's path and causing it to enter the time machine at an angle that would cause its future self to strike its past self the very glancing blow that altered its path.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop

[–] chilone (17278) 7 years ago

Please enlighten us with the rules of time travel, as you are clearly an expert.