Time machine

[Gargamel]

if the inventor of a time machine would travel back in time and kill himself, what would happen? would the time machine never have been invented and therefor he couldnt travel back in time to kill himself or would he vanish and the timemachine would be left in his past. has anyone tested this cuz i would really like to know what happens before i try it myself

[Fellfrosch]

Hi Gargamel, welcome to the forum. As for your question, I don't know of anyone who's tried it, but if your experiments are successful we could certainly use you for a secret mission or two.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I dont know, I think its easier to travel back in time in a time machine rather than a macine.

[Mr_Pleasington]

Not actually El Jeffe.  In my reasearching years I found that macines could actually be useful in time travel, if for safetry concerns if nothing else.


Gargamel, what you propose would tear a fabric in the space/time continuum.  Anybody who's ever read any science fiction knows that

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

And anyone who's read Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency knows that history simply "remembers" a version of itself that makes sense, sort of like scar tissue for the temporal continuum. Everyone knows that a single man could never have that sort of influential impact on the entire universe

[Gargamel]

do you mean that pararell times will be created if this happens

[Arathorn]

yes, dimensionny-thingy-majiggys

[Gargamel]

are you high on something... if you are gimme some

[Arathorn]

high on life and Fell's magical pixie dust that keeps these forums together.

[Gargamel]

good for u  

[Brian]

As everyone who has had the rest of Douglas Adams' works knows, the meaning of the universe (and life, and everything else) is 42. So really, it doesn't matter if space-time is torn apart, because the answer will likely still be 42.

But for what it's worth, I subscribe to the scar tissue theory.

[Entsuropi]

Gah. So the meaning of life, the universe and everything is a cynical art teacher?

Damn. I bet god is laughing his divine arse off right now :/

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

er.... I think I just almost choked on my own bile. All this time I thought *I* was the center of the universe...

[Zenki_Fish]

well if you know anything that the answer is 42 and that if some one did that then they will not live to see another day
HAHAHA

[Archon]

I feel like I want to punch you.