Time Travelling Bruce

[tsofian]

Bruce is either a Time Traveler or he is not.

Time is either a single stream or it is not.

The Time stream may either be changed by time travelers or it may not.


Time Is Immutable Time Can be Changed
Single Time Stream Closed Loop- How are paradoxes resolved?
No Paradoxes,
no free will

Multiple Streams All time streams Each change is resolved by a
exist as individual branching of time
closed loops All paradoxes could be
resolved by a “dead end” branch
that is terminated and doesn’t go
forward. All other possibilities exist




If Bruce is moving forwards and back through Time and brings back advanced technology that means in the future civilization has been rebuilt and has achieved science, technology and industry that exceeds our current state, let alone the state of 1960. If there is but a single timeline it means that the Morrow project must have been successful in its overall mission, because otherwise why would Bruce be supporting it? Maybe he went forward in time and discovered that something called The Morrow Project was the key to recovery and went back in time and built it?

Here is an interesting article on closed loop time travel
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/mar...time-travelers

"Do closed timelike curves necessarily lead to paradoxes?

If they do, then they cannot exist, simple as that. Logical contradictions cannot occur. More specifically, there is only one correct answer to the question “What happened at the vicinity of this particular event in space-time?” Something happens: You walk through a door, you are all by yourself, you meet someone else, you somehow never showed up, whatever it may be. And that something is whatever it is, and was whatever it was, and will be whatever it will be, once and forever. If, at a certain event, your grandfather and grandmother were getting it on, that’s what happened at that event. There is nothing you can do to change it, because it happened. You can no more change events in your past in a space-time with closed timelike curves than you can change events that already happened in ordinary space-time, with no closed timelike curves."

The implications for this in terms of Bruce's free will are concrete. If it is a closed time loop Bruce has no free will. He goes through time and performs the actions at specific points in time/space that he performs. His actions are immutable. If Time is a loop there is no past or present there are only events and these events that occur and exist at specific fixed points along the loop.

For those of us living within the loop it means that all of our actions are fixed. It doesn't matter what we (or in this case a character) chooses to do. It

For multiple time streams all actions can happen, all events have implications for other changes.