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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    01 month ago

    Okay. What did I say about gravity wells?

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      01 month 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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          1 month ago

          In your original comment I replied to.

          • @Bytemeister
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            01 month 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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                01 month 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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                  01 month ago

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

                  • @Bytemeister
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                    01 month ago

                    Yes, I know how special relativity relates space and time together, and that gravity is a warping of space, but I don’t see how this matters in the context of my comment.