back to the future paradox explained

Ordinary" 1985 is replaced
by "alternate" 1985;
If so,
Doc as well as Marty
should have gone out of existence
since they come from ordinary 1985
Why didn't that happen?
A possible answer to the paradox
relies on the so called
"Time-Continuum Lag" hypothesis


The disruption of time-continuum
brings about
a new events sequence
allowing it a time lag
to become the actual one

Marty's brother
is going to be erased
from existence after Marty's interference
in his parents' first encounter

Then his sister as well as Marty himself

the disruption of time-continuum
affects events sequence
just after an interval of time
in which
the two events sequences
apparently coexist

during that interval of time
future hasn't been written yet
and the two events sequences
are similarly going to happen
unless a certain event
- the boiling point -
suddently comes about

and time-continuum is
canalized into a single pathway

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[emabardo]

that's really nice

[TheRapidFire94]

Give me some thumbs if your brain is fucked.

[doc080]

@kasdata This is somewhat correct. The moment Old Biff left to give young Biff the Almanac he would not be able to return to the Reality from which he left. The logic of the movie suggests that reality would switch around the charachters. I contend that alternate realities and dimensions would be created and continue on playing out. Doc would have to invent a dimensionsal travel machine like that tv show Sliders. Otherwise, they would all be lost in alternate realities.

[DJRyan8]

The reason Marty and Doc didn't go out of existence is because Biff getting the book did not affect Marty and Doc's births.

[keyzcity]

This is what happened to my life.

[Rabite890]

@RtrTravisTWIG Even if it was never made in the first place? They never met and had Marty or the other two. So the picture didn't happen. Time is "fixing" things to the new reality. If it doesn't belong it's going to be removed.

[MikeAM78]

The BTTF movies are probably the easiest movies to understand in regards to their use of time travel. Many make it confusing. But if you just pay attention like a normal movie-viewing person, you should have no trouble understanding it all.

[vicko620]

What?

[awsingleton07]

Somewhat wrong. Once old biff handed himself the book the future changed. a DELETED scene shows old biff getting erased. we see that when he comes back he is in pain. marty and doc are no where in particular for them to realize the world had changed or if they did themselves. It could have (most likely did) change instantaneously around them and then they went back to the past which was now the alternate 1985. they cant be erased because they are the 1985 doc and marty. alternate reality or not

[THEDARKMINK]

DID you know that was an escene omitted in the movie when Marty in the alternate future is entering the building where his mother and Biff live and he meets with alternate MARTY ?? that would be awesome

[RtrTravisTWIG]

The picture should not fade when Marty stops George and Lorraine from meeting. a picture is still a picture.

Im pretty sure if i went on Facebook and took a picture of someone's post, then they delete it, i should still see the picture.

[AkabaneKuroudo]

"Obviously, somewhere in the past the timeline SKEWED down into this tangent[draws new line and writes 1985A] creating an alternate 1985." LOL xD!!!