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

      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.

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          5 days 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.

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            4 days ago

            What happens to the rate at which you travel through time as you approach the bottom of a gravity well?

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              4 days 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.