Does changing the past affect the present?

“Changing the past doesn’t change the future […] If you travel to the past, that past becomes your future, and your former present becomes the past which can’t now be changed by your new future.”

Why is time a paradox?

A temporal paradox, time paradox, or time travel paradox is a paradox, an apparent contradiction, or logical contradiction associated with the idea of time and time travel. In physics, temporal paradoxes fall into two broad groups: consistency paradoxes exemplified by the grandfather paradox; and causal loops.

What is antithesis?

Antithesis (Greek for “setting opposite”) means “a contrast or opposite.” For example, when something or someone is the opposite of another thing or person. As a rhetorical device, antithesis pairs exact opposite or contrasting ideas in a parallel grammatical structure.

What is the best Paradox?

10 Paradoxes That Will Boggle Your Mind

  • ACHILLES AND THE TORTOISE.
  • THE BOOTSTRAP PARADOX.
  • THE BOY OR GIRL PARADOX.
  • THE CARD PARADOX.
  • THE CROCODILE PARADOX.
  • THE DICHOTOMY PARADOX.
  • THE FLETCHER’S PARADOX.
  • GALILEO’S PARADOX OF THE INFINITE.

What would happen if a time paradox occurred?

These paradoxes are from over-analyzing the link between past, present, and future. In reality, if anything could travel through time, it would escape the confines of its original time and now exist completely outside of time altogether, for the entirety of time spent outside of its original time.

What happens if you meet yourself in the past?

1) When you go and meet yourself in the past you create a new timeline – where that meeting set events in motion down another path, and it becomes an alternate universe. The universe where you initially traveled from (this one) would remain unaffected, as it still exists and all that happened was the timelines split.