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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    5 days ago

    Are we traveling through time? Or is time simply a universal constant of entropy? Everything you experience is energy flowing from a higher potential to a lower potential, with some “loss” to heat. Without that downward shuffle, a rock balanced on it’s tip is indistinguishable from a time-stopped version of itself.

    Basically, time is your body’s sensation of the inevitable terror that is the heatdeath of the universe.