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Please be patient. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

So if I can destroy 1 electron I destroy every electron?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Only in its future. Probably you’d have to find the electron precisely at the end of its timeline.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So I have to destroy 2 electrons to fuck over causality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How could you destroy 2, if there's only one?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's why it would fuck over causality. If I destroyed 1 that could be the natural end of the electrons "life" of bouncing back and forth through time. I would need to destroy a 2nd which would then have to be the same electron from earlier in it's timeline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ah, you're viewing it as a timetravellers' dilemma.

My view was more that we're an observer in the lagrangian solution to the differential equation we call life. The electron, being a constant in the equation. Remove the electron, you alter the equation, therefore destroying known life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Careful, reality might just destroy you instead to avoid the paradox. I suspect that's how it avoids all of the paradoxes if time travel is possible in a single timeline universe. And this idea isn't compatible with the multiple timeline time travel idea (otherwise the electron will end up in a different timeline each time it jumps backwards).

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