Timeline for Addressing paradoxes with Weapons designed to hit a target in the past
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| Oct 11, 2022 at 8:11 | comment | added | user1878648 | This is incorrect. There is always a paradox when you go FTL and time travel. Ship A sunk the ship B 5 light minutes away. Ok. Except I'm ship C. Ally of ship B. Im 4 light minutes away from ship B and 6 light minutes away from ship A. I see ship B get sunk and I immediately fire at ship A. I have now sunk ship A before it fired at ship B. Why? Because I saw it destroy ship B. Cause after effect. A paradox. | |
| Sep 26, 2022 at 0:10 | comment | added | Chronocidal | @CemKalyoncu And, of course, you can't know that you are going to press the button before you do — because the first time you get the information of whether you did or not is when you do or don't. You see the ship explode just after you press the button, not before it. (I say just after, because the signal from the button to launch the projectile still appears to be limited to lightspeed, and then the projectile/launcher has to react) | |
| Sep 25, 2022 at 9:31 | comment | added | Cem Kalyoncu | Good answer. More clarification. Time is not a linear thing, it doesn't happen in "real-time". We have 4D space and time is a part of it there are rules to validate/create this 4D space. So, only the enemy ship is destroyed in the past, it happens before you pressed the button. And since that happened already, you are going to press that button when the time comes. | |
| Sep 23, 2022 at 20:03 | comment | added | Stephen S | It can't. At T-3, the enemy ship is already 2 minutes dead. T-6, it's fine, T-5, instant death for no apparent reason. As someone else mentioned, if you both see each other at the same time, the ship that fires first wins, as the other ship has already exploded, and you see the light of the explosion the instant you press the fire button. | |
| Sep 23, 2022 at 16:54 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | You've done a very good job of clarifying what I mean by how the weapon moves back in time as it crosses space, but note that the weapon was fired at T0, but what happens if the other ship shot at you at T-3? In this series of events, the enemy ship technically shot first... but did not shoot until after getting hit. | |
| S Sep 23, 2022 at 13:39 | review | First answers | |||
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| S Sep 23, 2022 at 13:39 | history | answered | Mileonen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |