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[raaaid]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...onsistency_principle

In response, another physicist named Joseph Polchinski sent them a letter in which he argued that one could avoid questions of free will by considering a potentially paradoxical situation involving a billiard ball sent through a wormhole which sends it back in time. In this scenario, the ball is fired into a wormhole at an angle such that, if it continues along that path, it will exit the wormhole in the past at just the right angle to collide with its earlier self, thereby knocking it off course and preventing it from entering the wormhole in the first place. Thorne deemed this problem "Polchinski's paradox".[4]
After considering the problem, two students at Caltech (where Thorne taught), Fernando Echeverria and Gunnar Klinkhammer, were able to find a solution beginning with the original billiard ball trajectory proposed by Polchinski which managed to avoid any inconsistencies. In this situation, the billiard ball emerges from the future at a different angle than the one used to generate the paradox, and <span class="ev_code_RED">delivers its younger self a glancing blow instead of knocking it completely away from the wormhole, a blow which changes its trajectory in just the right way so that it will travel back in time with the angle required to deliver its younger self this glancing blow.</span>

so the people from the future that are trying this guy does not what he has to do are actually leading him into that thing?the one theyre trying to avoid?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx3m4e45bTo

[raaaid]

and i bet this sounds familiar:

for example, a time traveller could rescue people from a disaster, and replace them with realistic corpses seconds before it occurs. Providing that the rescuees do not re-emerge until after the time traveller first journeyed into the past, his/her motivation to create the time machine and travel into the past will be preserved.

take disaster put holocaust and substitute corpse by robots and voila:

my own precognitive words by a relevant person

[major_setback]

Originally posted by raaaid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...onsistency_principle

In response, another physicist named Joseph Polchinski sent them a letter in which he argued that one could avoid questions of free will by considering a potentially paradoxical situation involving a billiard ball sent through a wormhole which sends it back in time. In this scenario, the ball is fired into a wormhole at an angle such that, if it continues along that path, it will exit the wormhole in the past at just the right angle to collide with its earlier self, thereby knocking it off course and preventing it from entering the wormhole in the first place. Thorne deemed this problem "Polchinski's paradox".[4]
After considering the problem, two students at Caltech (where Thorne taught), Fernando Echeverria and Gunnar Klinkhammer, were able to find a solution beginning with the original billiard ball trajectory proposed by Polchinski which managed to avoid any inconsistencies. In this situation, the billiard ball emerges from the future at a different angle than the one used to generate the paradox, and <span class="ev_code_RED">delivers its younger self a glancing blow instead of knocking it completely away from the wormhole, a blow which changes its trajectory in just the right way so that it will travel back in time with the angle required to deliver its younger self this glancing blow.</span>

so the people from the future that are trying this guy does not what he has to do are actually leading him into that thing?the one theyre trying to avoid?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx3m4e45bTo

I was not going to reply to this. But I decided that my answer might just be the glancing blow required to stop any others from replying to this thread.

[DuxCorvan]

@Setback: you failed.

Because this sentence:

take disaster put holocaust and substitute corpse by robots and voila

Needs to be regarded as a peak of surrealistic literature.