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
    • @BytemeisterEnglish
      0•4 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
        0•4 days ago

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

        • @BytemeisterEnglish
          0•4 days 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.

          • @SpaceNoodle
            0•4 days 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?

            • @BytemeisterEnglish
              0•3 days ago

              That you’re nitpicking a little bit of creative writing?

                • @BytemeisterEnglish
                  0•3 days ago

                  I don’t think so, I think you fucked up your understanding of my comment, and rather that admit it, you’ve gone on a 12 post goose chase to try and avoid admitting that you didn’t understand anything I wrote. Just own it dude, it’s okay to be wrong sometimes.