The Time loop of the present and future

First off, anyone and everyone would love to be able to time travel. There are so many options and possibilities that we have all missed out on that if we knew the answer to we might change them. I agree with Lewis when he says, "that a possible world where time travel took place would be a most strange world, different in fundamental ways from the world we think is ours." (492) This strange world is pictured perfectly by the bizarre world that skynet takes over in the Terminator movie.

James Cameron builds The Terminator much like the movie Looper is seen. There are irrefutable fact that come into the equation that make you overthink the movie because of the impossibilities. In The Terminator Officer Kyle Reese is sent back to protect Sarah Connors because is going to be killed by that terminator sent back before him. This seems all fine an dandy, until we consider the whole picture. The only reason that Kyle is sent back is because the future leader, Connors, told him to protect his mom, but in turn, ends up having sex with Sarah Connors causing her to have her child who eventually sends Kyle back to save his mom again. The only way that we can justify this is with the multiple times and universe theory, which means there are identical worlds out there with just very minor differences. If we take this into consideration then it is possible to change the past because the past for you is another persons present. David also states that, "the past is impossible to change because it is logically impossible."

Another issue that time travel has is the formation of matter that was not originally there. The laws of physics that matter cannot be either created or destroyed. This would be the in the instant like Looper where there are both two loopers present who are the same person. This would be impossible for two of the same person to exist in the same time and space. Time travel to the past has my aspects that can be questions and proved wrong unless the whole world that the movie is built in stays true to its own boundaries. The future has no boundaries though. The actions of the future are not decided yet and therefor have no implications that would hold the time traveler bound to his/her previous time.

The time machine problem is a perfect illustration for this movie. If i stole a time machine only to donate it to a museum so my early version could steal it again and donate it once more, then there is a never ending cycle. The only way for this to end is by the person dying before his time frame, loop has been reached again.

Time travel is one of those issues that people would never be able to contemplate and is only attainable in the movies. This is why we cant logically come to a conclusion for the questions that we ask because we do not know of the right answer and this time. Maybe a future version of us will tell present us the answer.

Terminating the Loop

The Terminator, a 1984 movie with questionable graphics that has so many relations to Looper. In both films, there are people from the future traveling back in time to assist some way in the past.  The question we discussed in class was how did Bruce Willis not know what Younger Version of him would do.  Just like in Terminator, Kyle had to come back in time to save Sarah Conner from the Terminator because she was the going to carry the future of the human existence.  Unlike in Terminator, Joseph Gorden- Levett had to see what the potential future would be when the Future him came back and did the damage to the child Seth.  Yet, Kyle in the Terminator came back and became the father to John Conner, leader of the rebellion. The issue with the paradox with time is that the future joins the past which equals the present; though neither film had the same time traveling effect with regards to memory.  Looper was focused on the future in a sense that memories could constantly be accessed, Terminator was not using a lot of memories from the future to aid the quest to save Sarah.  They did not know where the Terminator was going to be.  All characters from the future had to join the past because there was no way to ever get back to the future.  Which begs to question the of how time traveling back into time, why is it so loved by movie writers? Why change the past, to potentially make a better future? Thinking of people trying to consider "time as a river", and "space as a great motionless vessel", how can one possibly believe traveling back up the river (into the past) is nearly as possibly and traveling into the future.  Going back into the future poses so much threat to certain existence because if just one thing is changed, a life can be altered, a species can be eliminated, Earth can be destroyed; Or in Looper, Seth could become the RainMaker, or John Conner not existing at all.  The simple paradox of time travel into the past to alter the future is impossible, even though Hollywood thrives from the idea.