Michael_Calgary
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BTW, I am a nerd... and it's not meant to be a derogatory statement.
Ok. So let me see if I can translate my thoughts to something resembling coherent English..
My time travel topic will have a medical element in it as well.
So lets assume two things. First, time travel is possible. Second, in the future, medical science has found a way to cure everything. As well, the ability to live forever, or at the very least eons.
Here goes... So a man has traveled far into the future in a time machine to be "cured" by the medical establishment of that time.. After his procedure, he then travels back to his original time. Then he just lives his life and eventually "catches up" to the day he originally arrived to be cured.
Lets call the man who originally took the time ship "version 1" and then we'll call him "version 2" after he returns home from his medical procedure.
I am wondering. If after version 2 catches up to the point in time when version 1 arrived and was there to watch version 1 stepped out of the time ship, what would he see? Would he see his earlier self step out? Would there be two copies of the same human being? We'll assume yes is the answer for my next thought. (Also how could that be?)
Secondly, and this is what is hurting my brain most. How could version 2 be there to see version 1 step out of the time ship, if version 1 has not yet completed his medical procedure and returned home yet?
Thoughts?
Ok. So let me see if I can translate my thoughts to something resembling coherent English..
My time travel topic will have a medical element in it as well.
So lets assume two things. First, time travel is possible. Second, in the future, medical science has found a way to cure everything. As well, the ability to live forever, or at the very least eons.
Here goes... So a man has traveled far into the future in a time machine to be "cured" by the medical establishment of that time.. After his procedure, he then travels back to his original time. Then he just lives his life and eventually "catches up" to the day he originally arrived to be cured.
Lets call the man who originally took the time ship "version 1" and then we'll call him "version 2" after he returns home from his medical procedure.
I am wondering. If after version 2 catches up to the point in time when version 1 arrived and was there to watch version 1 stepped out of the time ship, what would he see? Would he see his earlier self step out? Would there be two copies of the same human being? We'll assume yes is the answer for my next thought. (Also how could that be?)
Secondly, and this is what is hurting my brain most. How could version 2 be there to see version 1 step out of the time ship, if version 1 has not yet completed his medical procedure and returned home yet?
Thoughts?
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