The impossibility of altering the occurrence of events.

by
Alejandro Lyman Chandler


There is a paradox which stipulates that given the possibility of traveling back in time the actions executed by this traveler could not interfere with his own existence, it is known as the grandfather paradox and it states the following, that if someone travels back in time and kill his own grandfather he cannot therefore be born because his grandfather is because of his actions dead, and all of this comes up to a tautology in which the existence of one act contradicts the existence of the other, but this paradox only deals with some one assassinating a past relative so let us therefore imagine the following, a great nuclear explosion occurs today in one of the world mayor cities and it gets printed in all of the mayor newspapers of the world and someone with access to a time traveling machine decides to go back in time to prevent the catastrophic detonation of the nuclear and so he gets into the machine and travels back in time an successfully prevents the explosion, the problem hereafter is that the news will not get printed in the mayor newspapers of the world and therefore this time traveler cannot make up his mind to get into the time traveling machine to prevent the event from happening, and therefor another tautology is presented where the existence of the detonation of the nuclear bomb informs our time traveler of the catastrophe and then he decides to go back in time and change it, and by doing so it prevents himself of being informed of the catastrophe an so on and so forth so that the existence of one event contradicts the existence of the other rendering the possibility of altering any event impossible by its own action.