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When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.
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I’ve always believed that if time travel is real it’ll generally take more than what people think to change the future in any significant way. Like if you were to use the visual of many branches on a tree or a river you’d likely see branches reconnect or run closely parallel fairly often.
If I kill my grandfather, might never have grandchildren.
But maybe it’s the other way around.
There is only kne way to find out.
But than again, there isn’t really.
Why are we always resorting to killing people in time travel? I beleive in restorative time travel
What if i do something to day that’ll radically change the future, but in a negative way?
Nope, not thaking that big of a risk. So I’m gonna continue what i already do. Nothing
And that by doing nothing, you force a negative change elsewhere. Shame that you could have done something and not had the negative effect.
But isn’t doing nothing just as impactful as doing something small? What if by going out and taking a walk, you bump in to someone, slowing them down by a few seconds. This leads to them narrowly avoiding getting hit by a car. Now they’re dead and it’s your fault, you monster!
But then this person, had the not been hit by a car, and died, would have set into motion the birth of space Hitler.
Damn you butterfly effect!
But it turns out space Hitler’s name was an unfortunate coincidence and really he led humanity into an intergalactic intersectional utopia. Now you’re still the monster for not taking a walk today!
A thing I think people don’t consider is that we know what has happened so it is a lot more clear what changes you could cause by going to the past but unfortunately future is completely unknowable so any changes we make are very abstract
The difference here is that changing things in the past risks your own life, and moreso, can create paradoxes where you never went to the past in the first place
