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Let's consider time travel between the years 1960, 1980, and 2000. If our intrepid traveler starts in 1980, the years 1960-1980 are that single, fixed past. If they then travel to 2000, all of 1960-2000 are now that single, fixed past. But when they travel back to 1960, any change means replacing all of that 1960-2000 past with some new past. The old past is not probability or theory, it actually existed and must now be replaced by something else that is, again, neither probability nor theory. This goes back to the Energy issue I raised earlier - collapsing probability is potentially a zero-energy issue, but replacing one concrete past with another isn't. Quote:
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So we have three worldlines that co-exist, but the people in the worldlines only know about the one they have always been on. Therefore, only BEM knows there have been differences. So quite literally, BEM perception is reality. But because his available choices of worldlines is limited, there is only so much change he can effect. Also, this is what caused him to lose his family. The change in worldline that was introduced when he stopped the 1989 war moved him to a point where his family only exists outside of his lightcone. He has no way to get back to them, unless he goes and stops himself from preventing the 1989 war, but that will put him on yet another worldline and still may not be able to reach them. Who knows, maybe he has tried it many times and just can't get back to them. It's kind of sad. But if we look at this from his family's perspective, he disappeared one day and just never came back. Most of this heavily draws on work by David Deutsch and presumes a multiverse. Though Deutsch's work has been criticized because even though his models do eliminate things like the Grandfather paradox, it suffers from a knowledge paradox that Deutsch's model cannot solve. But since this is just a game, close counts. If you are interested, here are some published papers: http://thelifeofpsi.com/wp-content/u...utsch-1991.pdf http://www.academia.edu/6059479/The_...of_Time_Travel https://conjecturesandrefutations.co...f-time-travel/ |
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For those not going to read the articles, one the the implications of this form of time travel is that within most of the closed timelike curves (CTCs) created by BEM, there will be more than one BEM. I assume most will be working in concert with each other, but this does leave open the possibility that Krell is BEM from a "different" worldline. Just food for thought.
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Maybe the problem is word infinite. If so let's just remove it and go multiple. In an infinite series of universes all possible outcomes are found an infinite number of times. If there are just a large number of universes then the distribution of outcomes will be distributed by likelihood.
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