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This has to create a paradox

redfishredfish
edited May 2011 in Back to the Future
If Doc Brown never pursues science and so never creates a time machine, none of the events happen that allow him to go back in time and convince himself to do that. So he'd end up creating the time machine anyway ... and it would create a kind of loop.

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  • LogicDeLuxeLogicDeLuxe
    edited May 2011
    redfish wrote: »
    If Doc Brown never pursues science and so never creates a time machine, none of the events happen that allow him to go back in time and convince himself to do that. So he'd end up creating the time machine anyway ... and it would create a kind of loop.
    It's kinda like Marty prevented to be born by accidentally keeping his parents from coming together in the first movie. If he wasn't born, he couldn't travel back in time, thus he will be born anyway.
    As we know, there's always a way to fix those loops.
  • redfishredfish
    edited May 2011
    LogicDeLuxe wrote: »
    It's kinda like Marty prevented to be born by accidentally keeping his parents from coming together in the first movie. If he wasn't born, he couldn't travel back in time, thus he will be born anyway.
    As we know, there's always a way to fix those loops.

    Yea, I guess you have to suppose that the characters from the original timeline are operating in bubbles that aren't affected by changes in the timeline until their event horizon expires and they disappear. And they remain in the timeline as material to other people for as long as they don't disappear, as traces of the original timeline.

    That would make sense all things considered, I guess.

    Although what's would happen to Marty? If he managed to return to the future he'd have a double there.. so he'd either have to stay in the past, and the Delorean would disappear, or he himself would disappear. I think the latter is more reasonable.

    So maybe it would come to a choice between the current Doc, First Citizen Brown, disappearing, or Marty disappearing. ! Would the Doc be that selfish if it were the case?
  • SoeroahSoeroah
    edited May 2011
    Just go with the game and enjoy it for what it is. The Back to the Future movies themselves had two or three conflicting theories of time travel, but I still enjoyed them. It doesn't help to try to reconcile paradoxes in a franchise that exists to entertain at the expense of logic.
  • Michael J Fox is CanadianMichael J Fox is Canadian
    edited May 2011
    What doc does indicate a paradox could end the universe he also says that's a worst case scenario. For all we know paradoxes have already occured. There is the theory (which I subscribe to) which is that if you change the timeline, a new dimension occurs;
    if you believe in the deleted scene from part II of biff disappearing when he gets back to the future, that would create a paradox. But if left alone, the timeline would show an older version of biff from a different timeline show up in 1955 since he doesn't live to the year 2015 in that timeline.
  • Marty Mcfly IIIMarty Mcfly III
    edited May 2011
    Yes it is a paradox but like everyone already said there are loads of paradoxes already in the BTTF series so it doesnt really matter.
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