I remember loving this film when I was a kid. But after seeing it 27 years later, I noticed this flaw.
After Jack the ripper steals the Time Machine and it returns to HG Wells house, why doesn't HG Wells set the time machine back one day before Jack the ripper steals the machine?
I know it wouldn't make an interesting film that way, but the guy has access to a time machine and can set it for any day or year.
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Why did it take you 27 years to come up with such a solution?
This is not to troll you but rather to point out that HG felt that he had to get to Jack ASAP and didn't take time to theorize on the possibilities of time travel. Perhaps if H.G. had given himself a bit of time (no pun intended) that he would have done otherwise.
People often panic and create a false sense of urgency. It leads to a lot of costly mistakes in life.
It's a movie, entertainment, not an intellectual discourse on time travel theory and execution! Good grief. As they say at NASA mission control, aah close enough!
shareWouldn't that create a paradox? If he travels back one day to stop the Ripper from stealing it...then the Ripper wouldn't steal it and Wells wouldn't know to travel back in time a day to stop the Ripper...which would then let history play out as it did originally which meant the Ripper would steal it...and around and around.
To avoid a paradox, he must capture the Ripper, not stop him from stealing it.
If Wells was smart, he would've travelled to modern day San Francisco a day earlier...waited at the museum for the Ripper to arrive the next day...and arrest him then.
I think time travel is possible just that effecting anything in a particular timeline is impossible.
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