The Terminator's Future Can Never Happen

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I Can Prove This

I'm looking at The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Now, I'm not saying it can't happen in the real world. I'm saying it can't happen within the world of the movie. In Terminator we are told that, Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah Conner so her son John Conner can never be born. So, John Conner sends Kyle Reese back in time to keep Sarah from dying. And in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, we learn Skynet actually sent TWO Terminators back in time to kill Sarah Conner, the T-800 in the first movie and the T-1000 in the second movie, so John Canner sent a THIRD Terminator back in time, this one was programmed to keep Sarah and John conner from being killed by the T-1000. During the movie, the Terminator from the first movie's arm is destroyed and so is the T-1000, and the good Terminator explains that he also has to be destroyed as no part of a Terminator can exist in the past otherwise Skynet will be formed and the Terminators will be made, and it will end humanity. So, the good Terminator sacrifices himself. So, do explain how the bad future happens if there is no trace of the Terminator left? I know Terminator 3 explains it but either way it just doesn't work out the future in the Terminator cannot exist

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Level 83
Dec 31, 2024
Well, if traveling back in time were possible, we’d pretty easily get some answers for the grandfather paradox (as philosophers call it). I tend to think that humans have a generally poor understanding of time, though. Physics experiments suggest the future can influence the past somehow, and we can’t really answer the grandfather paradox without a better understanding (paradox = go back in time and kill your own grandpa before your father is born).
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Level 66
Dec 31, 2024
Wow
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Level 61
Jan 1, 2025
The past as already past, but possible the future in this timeline could influence the past of another timeline? If time travel ever becomes possible, then it will always be possible, so why don't we have this already? My theory is that time travel doesn't alter time in the timeline, but creates ANOTHER timeline identical to the last one. So probably the future causes another timeline to be different somehow. Though if time works as to having every part of the timeline playing at once, then the part of time playing in that part of the timeline could be altered, branching off into a new timeline maybe?
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Level 66
Jan 1, 2025
Fair point