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Q&A In a world with time travel, would it be possible to be your own mother's mother?

Given that you can travel back in time and have a baby there, or alternatively, send your baby back in time, would it be possible that this baby one day becomes your own mother (gives birth to you)...

8 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by sebrockm‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by sebrockm‭

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Q&A Would a life form with the intelligence of a human but without an appendage for manipulating its environment be able to have advanced technology?

On another planet there is a life form that has the same level of intelligence as humans on Earth, but it has no appendage to manipulate its environment. It has similar social structures to humans...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Anders Gustafson‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Anders Gustafson‭

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Q&A Avoiding preventing your own birth in a time travel paradox?

Assume a world with no multiverse theory, just a single unbroken timeline. If you were to go back in time to the town your parents lived in on day of your conception, the air displacement due to yo...

17 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Space Ostrich‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Space Ostrich‭

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Q&A How exactly would this chronology protection for my FTL drive look like?

The problem with FTL is that, due to the tachyonic antitelephone, it allows causality violation: I send you a superluminal message (you are moving away from me at relativistic speed), you reply wit...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by mart‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by mart‭