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
    15•5 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?”

      • g0nz0li0
        3•4 days ago

        “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.

      • @untorquer
        2•4 days ago

        LOL. I knew there were a lot, never looked it up! The problem is, in the time travelling paradigm, those would fit in the self-mending timeline end of the theory. This version would simply have many dead hitler. Like schroedinger’s cat or photons or whatever.