If You Could Have 1 Superpower or Ability What Would It Be.

[lestatdark]

The Fury said:

lestatdark said:

Jay520 said:

lestatdark said:

Jay520 said:
Time travel definitely, I can create a life where I don't make any mistakes.

That would be awful, as you would end up creating a never ending stream of paradoxes. 

Bearing in mind that you could Time Travel as you will. In the present you do a mistake like, let's say accidentaly run over a person, and you travel back in time to warn yourself about it and correct it. The current present you (after being warned by the future you) would have no need to go back in time and warn your past you again because the mistake didn't happen, but then the past you wouldn't know about it and would still commit the mistake. 

So you're left with two choices: - Either you don't warn your past self about your future mistakes, or your future self is always doomed to go back in time to warn your past self about that mistake over and over again. 

That's why Time Travel, if ever possible, would be a terrible thing if ever used to go back to the past. Also using it to go into the future to see how your life would plan out would be terrible as well, because that would create an entire different set of paradoxes.

Well  not time travel, but the ability to change my past actions. Say for instance I remember a time where I drunk some bad milk. I could change the universe where I would have never drank the milk. Does that make sense?

That makes sense, since it's more of altering the reality of the events rather than the events themselves. 

But the memory of that bad milk still remains in your mind right? Because if it doesn't then you'd never have a reason to change your past to not drink that milk. You'd still have to be aware of the outcome for this ability to work.

Time is a hard thing to establish in superpowers, I like to stick to the 2 main types, 1 is time travel on a linear path where no matter what you do or what you try and change everything is already set out and you going back in time to kill your grandfather won't work as you exist anyway, bit depressing if you think about it as it means everything in your life is set and you cannot change it. 

Another version is that by traveling back in time to allow for free will, you also jump one reality, you will be able to kill your grandfather but it won't affect you as a person, in the other reality you'd still travel back as planned. If you travel forward in this reality you'd travel forward in this timeline and not go back to the other.

Both theories make it so the 'grandfather paradox' cannot occur.

 

 

The problem with the second version is that you'll end up creating a never-ending stream of alternate realities since every time you went back or forth in time, altering the current event of that reality, you end up creating new alternate realities. 

Imagine that you start with one normal reality, you go back in time and undo an event from the past creating a new reality on top of the current existing one. Now, in both realities you still have the power to travel time and you continue to use it, creating new realities on top of the realities already created.

That would create a geometrical amount of realities being placed on top of one another with just minute variations between each other. It's a whole paradox in itself.