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There would be a time paradox. If you were to go back in time to kill your parents, you could not have been born, so there would be the paradox.

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What is the grandfather paradox?

If you go back in time to when your grandfather was a kid and kill him, then your parents will have never been born, and you wouldn't have been born which means that you couldn't have killed your grandfather which means he would be alive so you would kill your grandfather and on and on and on..... wordy I know, but it's hard to explain


If I go back in time and kill my past self is it murder or suicide?

it is a suicide because you killed your self However, based on time continuum if you did that then you would not have existed in the present to go back in time


What does paradox do?

It is an impossibility were something that stops an event which results that made the stopping event not stop it, so the event happens so it makes it stop itself in a never ending cycle,and my guess to what would happen is better than yoursThe below paradox is called a Logical paradox because it deals with truth and contradiction. Many logical paradoxes are variations on Russel's Paradox, a key concept in advanced logic and set theory. Most people know it through the Barber paradox or the Liar's paradox, as seen belowA paradox is simply a statement (or event) that contradicts itself.For example, take the statement 'I always lie'. If this is a true statement (ie the speaker DOES always lie) then the statement must be false because he would be lying when he made the statement! So the true statement is false and vice versa.An event paradox describes an event that again contradicts itself. The most famous is the 'Grandfather paradox': The paradox is this:Suppose a man traveled back in time and killed his biological grandfather before his grandfather met the traveller's grandmother. As a result of this event, one of the traveller's parents (and therefore the traveller himself) would never have been conceived or born. This would suggest that he could not have travelled back in time after all, because he didn't exist having never been born. But if this happened, this in turn implies the grandfather would still be alive, and the traveller would have been conceived, allowing him to travel back in time and kill his grandfather. But if he killed his grandfather..... and so it repeats itself.Thus each possibility seems to contradict itself.


Create a paradox statement with the word school?

a guy goes forward in time so he wouldn't have to go to school he meets himself in the future and he doesnt like how he turnned out because he didnt go to school so he goes back in time to 3 weeks later but he had been expelled from every school that would not have people that would try to kill him. his parents were killed by future him. he goes one secod to the past and one second later because he caught up to his time he and the one second younger version of him both die in order to keep the universe in balence


What is a paradoxical situation?

A paradox is a situation that ends in a conclusion that does not justify the cause, and therefore self contradictory. A paradoxical situation would be, for example, if a british man came upon the shoresof America, and stated 'all Englishmen are liars'. This would mean that he, as an Englishman, is telling the truth, so it means that he is lying, so he is telling the truth, and so the loop repeats. this lack of resole has sparked many ideas of time paradoxes, and what the resolve would be. Like, if a man went back in time and killed his grandfather before he was conceived, then he would never hae benn born and couldn't have killed his grandfather, thus, scientifically speaking, not making sense. as no-one has a time machine, we don't know what may happen, but here are a few theories: The affected time and area would become non-existant, The Universe would explode, implode or become non-existent (Back to the Future) Time would justify the anomally, so the man himself may become his own grandfather (Futurama), The man may just find himself unable. Another though is, when suns are compressed, the become nonexistent, and because this too doesnt make a whole heap of sense, a black hole appears. Maybe that is the universes way of justifying thing that make no sense at all...?

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What would happen if your future self went back and time and got killed?

Its just like the movies. But some movies go even further and they talk about their parents or ancestors getting killed and you and your family would never be alive here in the future. So that is a yes to this question you will DIE!


What would happen if you were a prisoner of war and you escaped but were recaptured?

you would be captured and killed e.g shot in the back , gased , or electucuted with other bodys aroung you.


What would happen if you went back in time before the beginning of the universe then somehow started the universe and then went back in time before you went back in time and killed yourself?

nothing


What would happen to a Jehovah's Witness youth if his parents found out he or she did sexual things?

No. He would not get beat. His parents still loved him. The elders in the congregation would have to talk to him, and if he didn't think what he was doing was bad, he would get taken out of the congregation. But if he was sorry for what he did, they would let him back in.


What would happen to a Jehovah boy if his parents found out he did sexual things would he get banned or beat?

No. He would not get beat. His parents still loved him. The elders in the congregation would have to talk to him, and if he didn't think what he was doing was bad, he would get taken out of the congregation. But if he was sorry for what he did, they would let him back in.


What happen to Robespierre?

He was executed by the guillotine.


If two kids went back in time and killed their grandparents then who killed their grandparents?

No one would have because you can't go back in time. But if you could then there grandparents would be dead and the one who killed them wouldn't exist.


Did Lord Voldemort give Harry Potter his parents?

Voldemort never actually took Harry's parents; he killed them. so no. he didn't "give them back"


What would happen if you went back in time and then killed the guy that invented the Time machine?

More than likely it would become a back and forth thing since he could do the same. Another answer: The Time Machine will cease to exist, you would never heard about the time machine and never gone back in time. Simple as that.


What would happen if you peed on plants?

it would pee back on you


What would happen if you dropped a hamster on its back?

If you dropped a hamster on its back it would go into shock.


What would happen if humans killed the plants of an ecosystem?

If humans killed ALL plants on earth, we would all suffocate. This is because plants convert co2 (carbon dioxide), which is exhaled by all animals, back into oxygen through photosynthesis. If they didn't convert co2, the earth's oxygen supply would depleat and we would fill the atmosphere with co2, and we would have no oxygen.