Time traveling and Modern Physics
You
are very depressed. You are suicidally depressed. You have a gun. But
you do not quite have the courage to point the gun at yourself and kill
yourself in this way. If only someone else would kill you, that would be
a good thing. But you can't really ask someone to kill you. That
wouldn't be fair. You decide that if you remain this depressed and you
find a time machine, you will travel back in time to just about now, and
kill your earlier self.
That would be good. In that way you even would
get rid of the depressing time you will spend between now and when you
would get into that time machine. You start to muse about the coherence
of this idea, when something amazing happens. Out of nowhere you
suddenly see someone coming towards you with a gun pointed at you.
In
fact he looks very much like you, except that he is bleeding badly from
his left eye, and can barely stand up straight. You are at peace. You
look straight at him, calmly. He shoots. You feel a searing pain in your
left eye. Your mind is in chaos, you stagger around and accidentally
enter a strange looking cubicle. You drift off into unconsciousness.
After a while, you can not tell how long, you drift back into
consciousness and stagger out of the cubicle. You see someone in the
distance looking at you calmly and fixedly. You realize that it is your
younger self. He looks straight at you. You are in terrible pain. You
have to end this, you have to kill him, really kill him once and for
all. You shoot him, but your eyesight is so bad that your aim is off.
You do not kill him, you merely damage his left eye. He staggers off.
You fall to the ground in agony, and decide to study the paradoxes of
time travel more seriously.
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