If you went back in time and killed your dad...(read description)?

Question

But if you killed your dad, you wouldn't exist TO kill your dad. Can someone explain the topic?

Answer 1

You existed to kill your dad.  After killing him you would probably be stuck were you are.  You would have changed history so much there would not be anything to go back to.

Answer 2

if you go back in time and kill your father, you're going to change the future, which means that you can't go back to the future where you belong.

good question though.

Answer 3

this paradox is solved by the "multiverse" hypothesis. in the moment you kill your father, or alter the past in any way, the universe splits into 2 other universes, one of which has one possibility of the outcome (dead dad) and the other has the other (normal universe).you would see your dad after going back to the present. I'm just grasping it though

or.. perhaps you were already born in the time you killed your dad...