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
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    5 months 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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        5 months ago

        In your original comment I replied to.

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          5 months 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.

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              5 months 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.

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                5 months ago

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

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                  5 months 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.

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                    5 months ago

                    If time moves faster at the bottom of a gravity well, and terror increases with the speed of time, then what can we infer?