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
  • Ludrol@szmer.info
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    3 months ago

    Time travel wouldn’t be by jumps but by contionous change in perpendicular* time dimension.

    So earth wouldn’t escape from your feet as you would move with it, just like you are doing right now with just one dimension.

    *time travel would be imposible if you can move only in one direction. ~~Then the 2nd time dimension would need to be under some funky angle (3/4π>α>1/2π and α≠π and α≠0) ~~ i am wrong