Stephen Hawking - The Mad Scientist Paradox

[ErikKnear]

Don't turn your wormhole up to 11!

[pochopaz7381]

1:19 in someway or another he created a different sucession of events

[markarov100]

Even if he goes and shoots himself it wouldn't do anything because him assembling the gun and going to the wormhole has already happened so therefore cannot be changed.

[UnknownXV]

@markarov100 It happened, but if he kills himself, before it happened; it couldn't have happened.

Hence the Paradox.

[Ag3ntW1nd3x]

what if he goes through the worm hole and then shoots himself, instead of shooting through the wormhole?

[dunnono00]

@Ag3ntW1nd3x

It's still a paradox. If the scientist steps through the wormhole and shot his past self, then he cannot be alive to step through the wormhole and shoot his past self.

[cursedswordsman]

Fucking brilliant!

[imlonecowboy]

you could easily know if you will ever able to see and "use" a time machine, write on a sheet of paper "visit me... on month/date/year" ... it may be the day after or a month after... then wait, if nothing happens you will then know if you will ever able to see and use a time machine in the future. Well... but probably with parallel universes the future you would never reach the actual time line where you wrote the message.

[loupardent666]

Death by extraterrestrial being coming from outerspace.

[flavius22]

i dont think you can call scientist a dude that sits in a chair and thinks he can bring back his dead friends or whatever

[VideoSlob]

their worried about the universe going into chaos? um..hello lol

[Maheshmk66]

amazing

[kyletinning7636]

if this person was to go back and shoot himself 1 min before. then he wouldnt have been able to shoot himself 1 min before. therefore, he would be alive, and could go forward and shoot himself. ololol.

[lavamaster530]

I wonder if Stephen Hawkings took this into account. What if wormholes only take you to a different parallel universe that has the same universe like the one 1 min ago. Then shooting yourself in that parallel universe won't cause a paradox because it isn't really you 1 min ago. Just a thought.

[tonyg445]

Mad Asian scientist 

[MultiIPwnage]

Death by another dimension.

[JohnF30Music]

feedback doesn't destroy the sound system any more than any other loud noise can. It can destroy your ears, sure.

[thaihustler]

soo... both would be dead then?

[nukka200]

@thaihustler yea both we be dead, but it violates the principles of physics so hed keep dying and coming back to life over and over again in a loop which would cause radiation destroying the wormhole and eventually fucking up the cuase and effect principle later on

[BubbaBodecker]

I would go back in time and meet up with Harland Sanders. Then I would steal his recipe for that there chicken!

[ThinkOneMoreTime]

How do you make a wormhole like that?

[HyperShadicX]

@ThinkOneMoreTime Adobe After Effects.

[ThinkOneMoreTime]

@HyperShadicX Great answer... =P

[Levitikai]

But if the radiation enters the wormhole and goes to another time, then if that radiation could re-enter that wormhole to either go back to the first time or another time, then it should still be stable. I could see it becoming a problem if the time gap is only a few seconds long, but this guy's wormhole was a minute gap, so the radiation, moving at the speed of light, would exit the wormhole and be on its merry way before if could loop around and re-eneter. I don't get it.

[EctoQuest]

@Levitikai i would be on its way, thats why it would destroy the portal for the radiation would be "duplicated" and re-enter the portal.

[hamoan66boi]

@Levitikai Like he said when you talk into a microphone and feedback happens, the sound goes in a loop getting louder and louder everytime. In this case the radiation is being duplicated as it enters the loophole again and again.

[nukka200]

@Levitikai good point. i think the time tunnel aspect of the wormhole was one minute long but the actual wormhole dimensions were only a couple feet long