Some ideas are:
- You branch off into another timeline and your actions make no difference to the previous timeline
- You’ve already taken said actions but just didn’t know about it so nothing changes
- Actions taken can have an effect (so you could suddenly erase yourself if you killed your parents)
- Only “nexus” or fixed events really matter, the timeline will sort itself out for minor changes
- something else entirely
deleted by creator
we already live in that one
See? Problem solved.
I like the one where the motion of the universe is not accounted for, so the travelers drop into empty space. But someone figures out how to use that to travel through space.
Time Wars are fun though. Each prime timeline moving others toward them.
I like the persistent present. We simply live with the paradoxes.
“Remember when Hitler was assassinated in 1919, 1933, 1936, and 1939, then off’d himself in his bunker in '45?”
“An unidentified man in SS uniform reportedly tried to kill Hitler during a rally at the Berlin Sportpalast.” 1939
This was definitely the time traveller.
Whichever one is objectively correct based on empirical evidence.
Fun fact: time travel does exist, and I am myself a time traveler. The fact that I’m travelling at one second per second along with everyone else is just a minor detail.
Are we traveling through time? Or is time simply a universal constant of entropy? Everything you experience is energy flowing from a higher potential to a lower potential, with some “loss” to heat. Without that downward shuffle, a rock balanced on it’s tip is indistinguishable from a time-stopped version of itself.
Basically, time is your body’s sensation of the inevitable terror that is the heatdeath of the universe.
Why would it be less terrifying to be further away from a gravity well?
I think you meant this comment for a different thread.
Nope.
Okay. What did I say about gravity wells?
You implied that life would be more terrifying the faster you traveled through time, like what would happen at the bottom of a gravity well.
Where?
Imagine if someone just naturally traveled through time at like… 1.0005 seconds per second… What would that look like? Would we be able to tell? Would they be able to tell? Would their perception be different?
This is a Relativity thing, isn’t it? Like the astronaut twins sort of…
