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
  • untorquer@lemmy.world
    15·
    6 days ago

    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?”