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Depends on what worldview you embrace. If there is really a God, then the Bible states that God knew us before Creation. So, one way or another, we would have been born. Besides, time travel is impossible.
If there is really a God, then the Bible states that God knew us before Creation. So, one way or another, we would have been born. Besides, time travel is impossible.
If God can't time travel, then he obviously isn't omnipotent, is he?
Have you met anyone from the future? Do you know anyone who has?
Absence of evidence is not necessarily the same thing as evidence of absence.
It is unlikely that, even if a person came back to the past, they would be able to interact with it in any meaningful way, because it would breach the principle of cause and effect (i.e. effect occurring before the cause existed).
That said, have you ever considered the possibility that (some) UFOs could be humans from the future? Perhaps remote viewing the past?
Indeed, the American CIA and British MI6 have both experimented with remote viewing in the past.
I am not aware of a single case of remote viewing that has been verified. And time travel is a pipe dream. If it did exist, someone would either rule the world, or gone back in time to fix a bunch of stuff that needs fixing.
I am not aware of a single case of remote viewing that has been verified.
You are probably right about that, but again if the defence industry is experimenting with it then you can hardly expect it to make any successes public knowledge.
And time travel is a pipe dream.
There is no known scientific law which suggests it can't eventually be achieved in some capacity.
If it did exist, someone would either rule the world, or gone back in time to fix a bunch of stuff that needs fixing.
But again, it could feasibly be the case that the past cannot be interacted with, only viewed.
If you get out of the realm of people for a moment and into quantum mechanics, then for decades scientists have theorised the existence of particles which travel backwards through time. In fact there is one recent study which suggests using these particles to power a super quantum computer.
You see, even if you are correct that time travel is impossible for people, that doesn't necessarily mean it is impossible for particles. If particles can be sent back through time then information can be sent back through time.
Depends what the thing is, but I probably would not have been born.
If the thing that was different was a molecule in a cloud shifted a millimeter, it's doubtful that would have changed human history.
But it wouldn't take much to warp human history. Even a fish dying in the depths of the ocean could create a change. For example the fish poisoned someone at dinner later, but since it died in the time travel, the person who was poisoned lives on and steals what would have been someone else's wife, and breeds nonexisteng kids, and so forth.
My answer is: it depends on what we mean by ANY one thing.
For example, from a pure scientific reasoning, the 3-body problem (interaction of three masses gravitationally) is an unanswered question, or even better, a question whose answer is: we can't solve it. There is no way we can know if a three-body system is stable (deterministic chaos theory).
Now let's raise the difficulty from a three variable issue to a potentially close to infinity number of variables (describing all the things happened after THAT up to the potential moment of our birth): as for the 3 body problem, WE CAN'T KNOW.
However, and this may be quite a silly argument (but I had to pick one, right? ps: my main argument is the one above :P) I can picture so many different properties that, if they were even slightly different, I wouldn't be here (an neither you nor anyone). Again using physics as a conveyor for my argument, there are 18 different parameters that define the Standard Model (the best theory we have about what the Universe is made of): if any of these parameters were slightly different (e.g. the mass of the neutron slightly larger than the mass of the electron) we would not have had the chain of events that eventually got here.
For lack of a better reason, I must say that I can picture many more scenarios in which we all are never born than the ones that see us living even though there is NO WAY for us to check if this is actually true.
Oh, that it an interesting thing to think about. It is hard to answer to this question without a preparation. I think I will contact the writers from this website essayontime.com.au/assignment-writing-services and ask them to make some research. As for now, my postion is more neutral. I could only guess that I couldn't have been born if one thing i the history was different.