Time Travel Paradoces

[Monita]

No: HPFGUIDX 57819

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> 
wrote:
> 
> But what if, say, the Dementor had performed the Dementor's Kiss on 
> Harry in the first timeline?  Then Harry wouldn't have been able to 
> get to the time turner to go back in time.  Which means the D's . 
> Kiss wasn't performed, or else he wouldn't have been able to change 
> it.  Were there just always two timelines?  No, that can't work.  
> Grr, I give up.  My feeble minded brain has been around 7 year olds 
> too long.

Hi Richelle,
You are in no way feeble minded. The Scientific Community argues over 
paradoxes all the time. The truth is nobody knows, yet. Some of the 
last Physicists to ponder the consideration that you have just 
attempted came up with a thing called *Chaos Theory* to help explain 
that they simply couldn't explain. :P

There is a theoretical answer to that question though. Through the 
curious, contemplation of a time paradox.  The nature of time paradox 
is to defy the laws of possibility with out directly breaking them. 

My dictionary gives the meaning of "paradox" as being;

an argument which through a valid process of deduction arrives at a 
self contradictory conclusion. 

So a time paradox is an argument of how the law of time continuity 
can be legally followed all the way to a destination that defies 
itself. 
It remains unexplained because it cannot be, but according to all 
known laws it already is. So what happens? 
Ok now I am back at the birthplace of Chaos so I'll move on to the 
subject for you. 

For Harrys case: 
Assuming the laws of time that we know and can prove scientifically. 
ie consecutive events following each other. We have a hypothetical 
universe of impossible events becoming probable when follow a 
timeline in a theoretical direction. 
The way to understand POA is to look at it not as two time lines but 
one. Harry's life. Consecutive events in Harry's life are looped in a 
circle creating a "paradox" *a scientific impossible* inside the loop.

In the story, when Harry goes back to three hours before, the 
continuity of time dictates !THAT TRIP IS his timeline! not another 
created one but all one with it's self. 
ie The concurrent sequences of events that defines Harry's existence 
includes the loop. 

Everything, inside the loop of Harry's timeline, is possible within 
the confines of time, theoretically. 
It IS possible for these impossible things to happen. 
Because it is possible, we can create a concurrence of events like 
Harry saving himself with out breaking the law of time continuity. 
Draw yourself a diagram if it helps. 

Valky 
Wondering how so many of us fictionists got our heads around advanced 
physics theorem to come up with these crazy suppositions.