8. The Logic Of Their Existence Is Usually Baffling
As if trying to wrap your head around future sciences isnt enough, more often than not the logic of time travel goes beyond reasonable explanation. Some of the biggest noodle scratchers are things like; how can he be here if he isnt born yet?, if everything has an effect, wont your presence here affect the future?, if you change your own past, will you still be there in the future to travel back and make the changes?, and my personal favorite, How do time machines pinpoint specific moments in history? There are a million and one ways in which time travel can confuse and contradict, so it is best not over think it. However, an occasional time traveller will come along and try to be a smartarse about it all. They will talk of parallel realities, altered timelines, remote existences and basically tangle themselves up so much that they almost disappear in a puff of complexities. Very rarely does a traveller take on the illogical reasoning of time travel and win. Instead they go into a vegetative state and/or end up damaging their own personal history beyond repair. Most likely to say: It is simple really
CASE STUDIES: Donnie Darko, Men in Black 3