Consider, if you will, that you had the opportunity to travel back in time and correct or change course on a decision you had once made that you wish you had made differently.
Would you?
Or would you leave well enough alone? Considering the Time Travel Paradox of unseen consequences of changing the past that might effect your present.
Would you go back and pick a different career, or save a relationship you let die, or help a friend who later on took a wrong path in life, or something loftier, try and stop a dictator from coming to power?
In Star Trek "The City on the Edge of Forever" that theme was explored.
As it was in "Back to the Future" when Marty McFly goes back in time and accidentally stops his parents from meeting, putting his own existence in jeopardy.
BUT LATELY, new theories have popped up, suggesting that Time has a way of self-correcting despite your interference with the past.
Paradox-Free Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible, Researchers Say
The paper, "Reversible dynamics with closed time-like curves and freedom of choice," was published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Classical and Quantum Gravity. The findings seem consistent with another time travel study published this summer in the peer-reviewed journal Physical Review Letters. That study found that changes made in the past won't drastically alter the future.
AND here is the other rub:
If you really were given that choice, you have to imagine, the temptation would be overwhelming, I mean who could resist the opportunity to do something over again but do it differently?
OR - could YOU resist, saying to yourself, it isn't worth the risk, that even if you could correct something that would later cause you regret or pain, is the correction itself likely to make things even worse?
Would you risk in the theory that Time is self correcting despite what you have done to change it?
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