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Hello everyone and welcome to... a titleless educational blog where I talk about interesting and education stuff suggested by you guys. In our first non-pilot entry we'll talk about the Grandfather Paradox. In case you don't know what it is, please consider the following. You have a time machine and you go back in time to a time before your parents are born and kill your grandfather. That would mean that there was no one to kill him in the first place, meaning that the timeline goes normally... meaning that you go back in time to kill your grandfather, and this goes on and on. Now, as for "solving" this paradox, we get different answers for it.

One answer is that by going back in time and killing your grandfather, you actually change the course of events. Lets say that by killing your grandfather, your grandmother would've married someone else, and had birth to someone else, and thus creating a new timeline.

Now hold on, I know what some of you are thinking: "You can't go back in time!" or you're naming other impossibilities. This is true. We'll never know the answer to this question because even if we do figure out how to travel in time (in which I don't think it'll happen in any of our lifetimes nor our grandchildren's grandchildren's grandchildren's grandchildren's grandchildren's grandchildren's lifetime) due to simply these logical processes of what exactly could happen, we'd be too scared to do anything. Because what if the universe does collapse on itself while doing this? What if the universe becomes ripped and all of these unimaginable creatures from far far away invade our world? Our Earth? I'm not here to dabble in that though.

There's no way of actually getting an answer to this. Even if we follow a logical process, by current logical process time travel cannot (and will not) exist. Possibly space travel (as in you're on an island but with a help of some machine you create a harmless wormhole to travel you to a city with no time (except maybe a second or two) passing by) but not time travel.

However this does bring up other theories that are up for debate. Such as multiple universes, the ability to travel through time, the ability to travel through space, and all of this possible pseudo-science stuff or meta-physics stuff. The only thing that I'm qualified to do here is to tell you that this paradox is quite possibly the most famous and possibly the biggest one concerning time and time travel, and to tell you this story. That's it. All answers are both correct and incorrect. Really, you could decide what happens. Assuming time-travel is possible, I guess really anything is possible at that point.

And as always, don't forget to be awesome.