Puzzle: While being hung, a killer is pulled from the past and into the future. He kills the scientist responsible, and is killed by a burglar, who then starts time machine and is back in the noose of past.
Starting point:
If the burglar and killer are 2 different people, how did the burglar found himself 'back in the noose of the past'?
He must've been the killer who was hung.
Answer :
Working backwards.
X is the same person, living in 2 different dimensions.
The killer actually started off as a burglar.
1) X(burglar) kills X(killer) of the scientist
> X(burglar) was afraid of getting killed by X (killer). So he killed X(killer).
2) Thus X(burglar) was getting hung for killing X(killer)
3) X(burgler who is now killer) is getting hung, only to be pulled to the past.
4) X(now killer) kills scientist not knowing that X(burglar) is coming very soon.
So,
Burglar is past.
Scientist and Time machine is past.
Burglar becomes Killer of scientist in future,
Who gets killed by Burglar from the past
Who gets hung in the future
Who is brought back to the past as Killer of scientist
Who gets killed by Burglar from the past
Who gets hung in the future
Who is brought back to the past as Killer of scientist
Who gets killed by Burglar from the past
Who gets hung in the future
So when the burglar starts the time machine, he's only fast-forwarding his life to get hanged for his murder.
Then the scientist from the past pulls him back to the past, repeating everything again.
Bottomline, he didn't even get killed by the noose, but by himself as a burgler from the past.
[This is a cycle, so the question is phrased in a way that makes the story continuous, making it seem that the killer is from the past, and the scientist + time machine + burglar is from the future.]
There's still a question:
Why would the killer dude kill the scientist??
Possibility:
He may have already been conscious that he was going to get hanged soon in the future. So he tried to control the present (which is the past) by killing the scientist and getting hold of the time machine. But he was too late as the burglar has come. Because the burglar saw the dead scientist on the floor, he was afraid and killed the killer to protect himself. Afterwards, he accidentally started the time machine and fast-forwarded himself to the hanging scene in the future.
He couldn't have escaped from the scientist's lab as the scientist wouldn't have let him [why would the scientist anyway when the guy's an experiment]. So the guy had no choice and ended up killing him.
I gave this puzzle a whole lot of thought and this is the closest i can get and i believe it's the right answer cause it makes sense hahahahahhaha.
OK GOING TO SLEEP NOW NIGHTZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
