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
  • @Bytemeister
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    5 days ago

    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.

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      05 days ago

      Why would it be less terrifying to be further away from a gravity well?

      • @Bytemeister
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        04 days ago

        I think you meant this comment for a different thread.

          • @Bytemeister
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            04 days ago

            Okay. What did I say about gravity wells?

            • @SpaceNoodle
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              04 days ago

              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.

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                  4 days ago

                  In your original comment I replied to.

                  • @Bytemeister
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                    04 days ago

                    Well, that was not the intended message to convey.

                    Can you quote the part that gives you that impression? I’d like the chance to fix or clarify it.