A man goes back in time...?

Question

This man lives in the year 3000. He travels back in time to the year 1000 and picks up a man from that year and then transports both of them back to the year 3000.

Let's say that all that happened in exactly a minute.

For a man living in the year 2000 would this minute be happening in the past or in the future?

Or both?

Or neither?

Answer 1

Setting aside the silliness/impossibility of the question, the answer is "both" (and isn't really that complicated).



The event whereby the 1000yr man is picked up happens in the 2000yr man's past.



The event whereby the 1000yr man lives in the 3000yr future happens in the 2000yr man's future.



The only somewhat difficult consideration is if there is a specific duration of time travel during which the time traveller is in transit and isn't specifically in year 1000 or 3000. If s/he is outside the bounds of time (in your scenario), then for that duration, the answer is neither.

Answer 2

Well, if he's living in the year 2000, then when the guy gets the other guy it's the past, but when he drops the guy off in the year 3000, it's the future. So it's both. Or neither?



Confuzzled :/

Answer 3

Theoretically, in such a scenario, time is not linear in the way you seem to be implying.



But for arguments sake, I'd say on a linear time scale it would be in the present, as the time traveling people would be working on a parallel time-line separate and simultaneous to the man living his life in the year 2000.

Answer 4

both.



the decision to go back would have been taken in the future.

the man that was picked up would have been picked up in the past.



the problem doesnt actually get complicated until you take into account that the odds that the man in the year 3000 is related to the man he takes to the future in the year 1000 is nearly 50%.

Answer 5

both because 2000 is between 1000 and 3000

Answer 6

for the man in 2000, the time that he was going forward would always be in his past. because year 3000 is now his present making 2000 and all the time after his past.

Answer 7

By the Explosion Principle,if you can assert something impossible, then anything can be derived from it.



Therefore, since you assert that backwards time travel by humans is possible,

then pretty much anything else you want to assert is also possible.



For the man living in 2000, he suddenly becomes a Pineapple Cake, then he becomes God, then he eats the moon, and time travelers he has never met, never existed anyways.

Answer 8

to travel in time you have to achieve a speed faster than that of light(3000000kms per second) which is impossible.man have not even accelarated even an atom to that speed.



so time travel is not possible and there will be no man traveling from 3000 to 2000.

Answer 9

Going back in time is impossible.

Answer 10

I understand your question but don't really see the point of it, i think you'll have to add some more detail for me to get what you are driving at...

Answer 11

How can we answer? No one ever experience going back and forth in time.

Answer 12

Neither, cannot occur, is only fantasy.

Answer 13

neither

Answer 14

i dont know ask the doctor ............ you would need to find the TARDIS first

Answer 15

stupid question