Originally posted by: JennyS1138
There's one major inconsistency: the fact that when Marty travels into the future, his older self is there. That's impossible! If someone goes in a time machine and travels ahead 30 years, then that means that they would be "missing" for those 30 years. THere can't be 2 Marty's. Flight of the Navigator got that right. The kid's in a time machine for a few minutes and is returned 8 years in the future. He hasn't aged but to the rest of his family he was gone 8 years. Duh.....
But we know that Marty eventually returned to 1985 and continued his life from that point on, so he would have aged and grown into the middle aged Marty we see in Part 2..... Ah, it's only a movie.
Anyway, with regards to this post:
Originally posted by: Nanner Split
There's also the "parallel universe" theory expressed in Michael Crichton's "Timeline", where "time travel" is really traveling to one of an infinite amount of parallel universes that each consist of a particular point in time.
There's one major inconsistency: the fact that when Marty travels into the future, his older self is there. That's impossible! If someone goes in a time machine and travels ahead 30 years, then that means that they would be "missing" for those 30 years. THere can't be 2 Marty's. Flight of the Navigator got that right. The kid's in a time machine for a few minutes and is returned 8 years in the future. He hasn't aged but to the rest of his family he was gone 8 years. Duh.....
But we know that Marty eventually returned to 1985 and continued his life from that point on, so he would have aged and grown into the middle aged Marty we see in Part 2..... Ah, it's only a movie.
Anyway, with regards to this post:
Originally posted by: Nanner Split
There's also the "parallel universe" theory expressed in Michael Crichton's "Timeline", where "time travel" is really traveling to one of an infinite amount of parallel universes that each consist of a particular point in time.
Anyone ever heard of John Titor? I was totally hooked on this story for months. Probably a hoax, but fascinating all the same. Check it out:
http://johntitor.strategicbrains.com