- Dołączono
- 9 Sie 2022
Basically the idea that were timetravel to exist, the only timeline anyone could inhabit would be one where the actions taken by the time traveler create the future they came from, because any other timeline would be instantaneously rewritten and never experienced.
For example, you want to change Future A, so you go back to Past A to create Future B. But in doing so -- assuming there's only one timeline rather than branching many-worlds bullshit -- you instantaneously transform Future A into Future B, and to anyone existing after Past A, Future A never existed nor was experienced. Then suppose that Future B produces circumstances that motivate someone to go back and change the past again, creating Future C, and thus instantaneously erasing Future B. To someone living in the present, now only Present C exists. And so on. Anyone in the present will only ever experience the most recent iteration, because every "prior" iteration is instantly and recursively overwritten, like a file or a tape, from the moment the first change is made. Therefore, the only present anyone could possibly experience is a "self-stable" one, meaning the eventual inevitable timeline wherein the actions of the time-traveler, wittingly or unwittingly, recursively produce the very future that produced them. Or in other words, as soon as the first change is made, it sets off a causal chain of indeterminate length of iterations upon iterations of timelines all overwriting each other instantaneously until the universe "settles" on one that features a causal loop, necessarily, because a future that produces its own past is the only timeline that wouldn't be instantly overwritten by something else.
Hopefully that made sense.
I know this isn't a novel idea, I've seen in in media, for example Dark. Just wondering if it has a name.
For example, you want to change Future A, so you go back to Past A to create Future B. But in doing so -- assuming there's only one timeline rather than branching many-worlds bullshit -- you instantaneously transform Future A into Future B, and to anyone existing after Past A, Future A never existed nor was experienced. Then suppose that Future B produces circumstances that motivate someone to go back and change the past again, creating Future C, and thus instantaneously erasing Future B. To someone living in the present, now only Present C exists. And so on. Anyone in the present will only ever experience the most recent iteration, because every "prior" iteration is instantly and recursively overwritten, like a file or a tape, from the moment the first change is made. Therefore, the only present anyone could possibly experience is a "self-stable" one, meaning the eventual inevitable timeline wherein the actions of the time-traveler, wittingly or unwittingly, recursively produce the very future that produced them. Or in other words, as soon as the first change is made, it sets off a causal chain of indeterminate length of iterations upon iterations of timelines all overwriting each other instantaneously until the universe "settles" on one that features a causal loop, necessarily, because a future that produces its own past is the only timeline that wouldn't be instantly overwritten by something else.
Hopefully that made sense.
I know this isn't a novel idea, I've seen in in media, for example Dark. Just wondering if it has a name.
