<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>I argue that, contrary to an idea to be found in popularizations of time travel, one cannot more easily multiply oneself by taking younger versions of oneself back in time than by travelling back in time on one’s own. The reason is that the suggested multiplication of the traveller is, from a global perspective, only apparent.</p></abstract>

I argue that, contrary to an idea to be found in popularizations of time travel, one cannot more easily multiply oneself by taking younger versions of oneself back in time than by travelling back in time on one’s own. The reason is that the suggested multiplication of the traveller is, from a global perspective, only apparent.

Yet Another Confusion About Time Travel

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I argue that, contrary to an idea to be found in popularizations of time travel, one cannot more easily multiply oneself by taking younger versions of oneself...

Yet Another Confusion About Time Travel

Publicado en línea: 31 dic 2018

Páginas: 49 - 56

Recibido: 21 ene 2012

Aceptado: 05 oct 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2013-0004

Palabras clave
Time-travel, duplication, identity, space-time, fallacious reasoning

© 2013 Giuliano Torrengo, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Yet Another Confusion About Time Travel

Publicado en línea: 31 dic 2018

Páginas: 49 - 56

Recibido: 21 ene 2012

Aceptado: 05 oct 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2013-0004

Palabras claveTime-travel, duplication, identity, space-time, fallacious reasoning

© 2013 Giuliano Torrengo, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
Time-travel, duplication, identity, space-time, fallacious reasoning