Everything occurring in the universe is due to the rules of cause and effect, and not beyond the scope of the conversation. That's like saying the plot of Interstellar is beyond the scope of the conversation. They try to address how the paradox is not impossible and fail. They didn't give an origin.

Again; the rules of logic and linear causality still apply since whatever alterations something makes whilst in the fifth dimension would affect how it got to that point in the first place. There is no origin in this five dimensional situation, therefore time would have progressed naturally, (the fifth dimension not…

It's impossible because something without an origin doesn't come into being. Just like how, (in the opposite way) you can't bring yourself out of existence by killing yourself in the past because there's no point in which you end, you can't create something through time travel as there's no point in which it…

agreed

This is still linear-as-fuck. For it not to be linear, you'd need some kind of completely independent intervention from the 6th dimension to create an origin. If there's no origin, it never happened.

You keep saying it "had happened" for a reason. It's because it still conforms to linear time since he originated in four dimensions. And since he came from four dimensional space he would be unable to cause himself to do something that resulted in him becoming five dimensional, which resulted in him sending the…

If the subject of the paradox starts out in four dimensions and moves into five, it's still linear. The past still happened to the subject.

"And hence he couldn't kill himself in the past, because that's not what happened."
This sums up what's wrong with your argument. You're saying this is a dimension outside of normal space-time, and yet by saying "that's not what happened" you mean that it occurred in the past. If you're looking at time "from the…

When you consider that the character getting to this "fifth-dimensional" state wouldn't have occurred without the loop created by him in the fifth-dimensional state in the first place, the impossibility of the paradox still holds. There is still no origin, even on the plane of five dimensions. By this logic he could…

His explanation doesn't actually deal with any of the paradoxes. No one was saying you can't observe the past. They're saying a) The grandfather paradox, (going back in time and killing yourself) cannot be resolved, and b) The bootstrap paradox, (going back in time and creating yourself) cannot be resolved. One has no…

Well, there are many dumber petitions out there than one for the reinstatement of this show's name to The Minority Report, so how about it AV Club? No? OK.

I'm wondering how the NBC execs are going to try to spin this. "We were thinking, so he assaulted 13 women? We can still work with this guy. But 15; that's where we at NBC draw the line."

That's even more problematic because half of it makes logical sense, but it contradicts itself. So, if in the timeline in which the "five-dimensional beings" came into existence the earth was destroyed they would be able to change this in an alternate timeline, like Star Trek (2009). That part makes sense. However,…

I just read these articles to see what they're Filed Under.

Going back in time to save yourself is just as possible as going back in time to kill yourself. By that I mean it's not.

I'm also not a fan of midichlorians, but the anti-force bubbles in the Thrawn trilogy really pissed me off. "The Force is everywhere… except in this sphere."

I agree with Grohl's sentiment and I'd like to add an old person statement: Back in my day it was the record labels being whiny assholes complaining about music distribution, not the musicians.

So, it's basically a live recording of digital tracks played to a crowd from their laptop pressed onto vinyl? Nothing wrong with that.

Arrowgate.

Note that what you're saying here is that no paradox is impossible because it's impossible to prove a negative. Also note that instead of giving you a mathematical or physical paradox I've given you purely logical ones, simply with a "physics" based mechanism. (Paradoxes of things creating themselves, the guy's…