From an article that showed up in my Apple News feed:
Researchers say that if you’re worried about paradoxes in time travel, you shouldn’t be.
Based on a lot of complex math, (a team of researchers from UQ) team says they’ve determined that paradoxes related to time travel would be self-correcting.
For example, you could go back and interact with your past self without ruining your future or even changing it in any measurable way.
Whew, that’s a relief! Actually the article describes some fascinating work done under the supervision of physicist Dr. Fabio Costa at the University of Queensland by fourth year Honors student Germain Tobar, who have been investigating the possibility of time travel and the paradox principle. Tobar examined the math behind Paradoxes in time travel, best represented by the Grandfather paradox:
If a time traveller were to cause the death of his grandfather before his father is born, there the time traveler’s existence becomes impossible. (Or just watch the movie “BACK TO THE FUTURE.”)
Say you travelled in time, in an attempt to stop COVID-19’s patient zero from being exposed to the virus. However if you stopped that individual from becoming infected – that would eliminate the motivation for you to go back and stop the pandemic in the first place. This is a paradox – an inconsistency that often leads people to think that time travel cannot occur in our universe. Some physicists say it is possible, but logically it’s hard to accept because that would affect our freedom to make any arbitrary action. It would mean you can time travel, but you cannot do anything that would cause a paradox to occur.
In the coronavirus patient zero example, you might try and stop patient zero from becoming infected, but in doing so you would catch the virus and become patient zero, or someone else would... No matter what you did, the salient events would just recalibrate around you. This would mean that – no matter your actions - the pandemic would occur, giving your younger self the motivation to go back and stop it. Try as you might to create a paradox, the events will always adjust themselves, to avoid any inconsistency. The range of mathematical processes we discovered show that time travel with free will is logically possible in our universe without any paradox.
Interesting that scientists crunching the numbers rely on the fact that “events would just recalibrate around you.” Yes, but I’m more interesting in asking:
WHO or WHAT is adjusting events to avoid any inconsistency?
What becomes apparent when doing “other” and between lives research is the presence of some force, God/Spirit/Source/Who- or What-ever, that is working behind the scenes and pulling the strings. (Diane Swygard humorously referred to this as “Big Daddy” in a workshop back in the 1980’s.) Who- or what-ever that’s conducting this symphony of synchronous events (that’s a mouthful) is actively involved in and affecting life events. In a previous post* I mentioned the coins concept that has enabled me to explain the concept of how past lives can be adjacent to each other. Basically, if all of our “other” lives were represented as coins arranged in a single line, and someone or something knocked the coins to the floor & then collected them into a pocket, coins that were previously far apart, say from 1200 BC and 1850, would now find themselves next to each other. Bringing these coins together also brings these lives together energetically. And who is the Orchestrator in this metaphor?
The greater being that is your Oversoul is constantly rattling the spare change in its pockets.
The larger question becomes, Why? (to be continued, possibly to infinity, that’s a big question.)
Here’s the link to the original article:
https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2020/09/young-physicist-squares-numbers’-time-travel
Good article on the Grandfather paradox: https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/time-travel6.htm