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ctrev37 t1_jdrrsfv wrote

Reply to comment by ProBono16 in Going back in time to kill baby Hitler by luvs_animals

That’s if the inventor made the Time Machine with the only purpose of killing hitler. Let’s say that was just one of his tasks on the list.

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ExhibitAa t1_jdrsqlo wrote

The paradox remains. If Hitler died as an infant, you don't use the time machine to go back and kill him.

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ctrev37 t1_jds0j07 wrote

So you’re saying time is always fixed and the past can not be altered.

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J8YDG9RTT8N2TG74YS7A t1_jdsk7zf wrote

Yes.

Travelling backwards in time is impossible due to causality.

Travelling forwards in time relative to now is possible due to time dilation from increased speed + distance from Earth.

Or you could just freeze yourself in the snow and wake up in 2546 and become the time child.

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ctrev37 t1_jdso1zv wrote

The past is the present waiting to become the future. All three of these exist simultaneously. The human mind is only capable of perceiving the present.

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Peace_Hopeful t1_jdt057o wrote

You could probably alter small things, but there is probably a hard limit of what can and can't be done. A better use of the energy would be to save the people who got murdered at the death camps. There's a really cool episode from the 90s outer limits where a time traveler helps a lawyer try and prosecute a former German death camp guard.

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