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
  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    5 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.