Starborn Dragon
Captain
There is a debate among fandom of whether Abrams Trek is time travel or just another universe. This is something I've been musing about off on for a number of years since the first reboot movie came out. I think I might have an answer I wish to present to you.
But first, let's take a look at the grandfather paradox. It's the prime example used by science when they explore the difficulties of actual time travel. It goes like this:
The time traveler goes back in time and kills his grandfather before his grandfather meets his grandmother. As a result, the time traveler is never born. But, if he was never born, then he is unable to travel through time and kill his grandfather, which means the traveler would then be born after all, and so on.
So, I think I may have an answer, although I think it has the possibility of breaking Occam's razor, which states that one must not multiply entities unnecessarily.
First, I have come to speculate that the basic argument is actually a false dichotomy, because it presents only two solutions. For the most part, I like to seek out more than just two solutions and sometimes I will find that there really are more than just an either or solution.
And this is the solution I have come up with. It is inspired by the grandfather paradox.
Time travel is dimension travel.
That is how the traveler still exists. He is not actually in his starting point dimension (for lack of a better term), he has arrived in another dimension.
So here's how this might break Occam's razor, because I don't know what the mechanics are that would cause him to have come to this other dimension.
I don't know if this is the real answer or not, but it seems to me that it does present the solution to the problem.
And I think it does fit the problem.
But, in all fairness, I have no idea how to test this out to see if it is the real scientific solution to the problem.
But first, let's take a look at the grandfather paradox. It's the prime example used by science when they explore the difficulties of actual time travel. It goes like this:
The time traveler goes back in time and kills his grandfather before his grandfather meets his grandmother. As a result, the time traveler is never born. But, if he was never born, then he is unable to travel through time and kill his grandfather, which means the traveler would then be born after all, and so on.
So, I think I may have an answer, although I think it has the possibility of breaking Occam's razor, which states that one must not multiply entities unnecessarily.
First, I have come to speculate that the basic argument is actually a false dichotomy, because it presents only two solutions. For the most part, I like to seek out more than just two solutions and sometimes I will find that there really are more than just an either or solution.
And this is the solution I have come up with. It is inspired by the grandfather paradox.
Time travel is dimension travel.
That is how the traveler still exists. He is not actually in his starting point dimension (for lack of a better term), he has arrived in another dimension.
So here's how this might break Occam's razor, because I don't know what the mechanics are that would cause him to have come to this other dimension.
I don't know if this is the real answer or not, but it seems to me that it does present the solution to the problem.
And I think it does fit the problem.
But, in all fairness, I have no idea how to test this out to see if it is the real scientific solution to the problem.
