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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      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.

          • @SpaceNoodle
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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.

                • @Bytemeister
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                  04 days ago

                  Basically, time is your body’s sensation of the inevitable terror that is the heatdeath of the universe.

                  This doesn’t appear to pertain to gravity wells.

                  • @SpaceNoodle
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                    03 days ago

                    What happens to the rate at which you travel through time as you approach the bottom of a gravity well?