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
  • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    03 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.

      • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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        03 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.

          • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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            03 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.

            • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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              03 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?

                  • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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                    02 months 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.