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If time travel were to exist, which theory would you subscribe to? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago by ramble81@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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

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[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

I like the persistent present. We simply live with the paradoxes.

"Remember when Hitler was assassinated in 1919, 1933, 1936, and 1939, then off'd himself in his bunker in '45?"

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 4 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Adolf_Hitler

You're not wrong

[-] g0nz0li0@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

"An unidentified man in SS uniform reportedly tried to kill Hitler during a rally at the Berlin Sportpalast." 1939

This was definitely the time traveller.

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

LOL. I knew there were a lot, never looked it up! The problem is, in the time travelling paradigm, those would fit in the self-mending timeline end of the theory. This version would simply have many dead hitler. Like schroedinger's cat or photons or whatever.

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