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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

The Paradox of Time Travel...


So my twin brother and I (for identity purposes we will refer to him as Spicer), planned on watching all of the movie trilogies (or higher) that we owned. So we started with the Lethal Weapons, Indiana Jones', Lord of the rings and so on, but when watching trilogies it cannot be complete without Doc Brown saying "great scott" and Marty saying "that's heavy." So we started watching back to the future and that is when the idea of time travel came into my mind and because of this I have suffered numerous migraines and have almost had my head explode twice from trying to calculate all the possibilties of time travel and it's consequences.


The easiest way to look at it is that if we could travel back in time, the experience and result can be described in two simple words "oh fuck!" Anything you do would cause a severe disturbance in the space time continuum and boom the past, present and future of the world is now stuck on an alternate 1985. (watch back to the future to understand this allusion). With this knowledge I decided to think about what Marty does and how he tries to make things better by altering even more things in the past to affect his future. Well, colour me pink and call me an elephant, none of that shit marty did would even make a difference, for reasons that follow:


1. His mom and dad would immediately recognize him as Calvin Klein when he became 18 again (in the future) and their heads would simultaneously explode from the knowledge.


2. His kissed his mom and took her to prom, that knowledge alone is enough to land any hormonal teenager in the insane asylum.


3. In real life Biff would have just kicked the shit out of George McFly and than Marty.


4. Chuck Berry would never steal Johnny B. Good from a white guy.


5. Going back in time and allowing Chuck Barry to use his own song would mean that Marty was always going to go to the past, Doc was never going to die and the Libyans were never at the mall for shopping.


And believe I could go on and on with this list but I feel that these answers are satisfactory enough for the masses. It is safe to assume that even going back in time would create a rip in the space time continuum and cause so much shit that you would just off yourself instead of dealing with the consequences. But if you are at all interested in time travel and crazy shit like that try reading Lightning by Dean Koontz and if that doesn't keep you up at night trying to comprehend all that craziness than God Help You.


Cheers


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