Let say you time travel to the distant past and exact a change there, like prevent Rome from being built or something. Would it cancel out the original time line or would it create a parallel time line that moves in conjunction to the original one? Would they eventually intersect and become one time line again?
What happens when you alter time?
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I think that each time travel event would create a new timeline starting from the moment you traveled to. The people in that timeline, even from the future in that timeline, would never know anything changed, because things will have always been that way. I don't think that there would be any way to merge these two timelines.
But now, is time one linear path, or can it fold over on itself? It would seem to me of something was to drastically change the course of time that you would have people popping in and out of a given scenario because suddenly, due to a change made to the past by a traveler, they had never been born, or conversely, had been born.
kana_marie
Chrono Cadet
Honestly, I have never thought this through very thoroughly. I guess I always just assumed it would change the existing time line. If I start to think it through now, it makes more sense to me that it would create an existing time line. I may change my mind after I spend more time with it, but that is definitely what I'm leaning towards right now. I'm really glad you put this out there.
Pinoy Jade
Temporal Novice
Altering time is very bad. Knowing the future can also lead to a worse thing for the future. Knowing what would happen and altering the things that must have happen can lead to a serious disease in the time continuum. Watch the latest episode of The Flash, there is the time when Barry went back to the past and he altered something.
But then again, there is the idea of multiple timelines. If this happens A is the outcome. If this happens B is the outcome. If this happens X is the outcome.... Like in that movie where the guy could see what would happen in the end depending on the decisions made.... I think Nicholas Cage was in it.... The Knowing I think.... I can't remember.
Thanks Gpa, I could not remember the name of the movie for the life of me.
That movie pretty much portrays exactly what I was trying to say. Like a hand with all the digits. The palm would be the decision to be made and the digits are the different decisions you could make and their out come.
That movie pretty much portrays exactly what I was trying to say. Like a hand with all the digits. The palm would be the decision to be made and the digits are the different decisions you could make and their out come.
If you did that then everything that is known and done in the present will be different. You could possibly have not been born.
Now in response to the movie next. Nicolas Cages character could see in the future. He couldn't travel back in time. If you know the future, you could possible change it as the movie depicted.
Now if you want to see a movie that shows the true sense of the butterfly effect, check out "A Sound of Thunder". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318081/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_53
Anyways, both are just fictional movies and made for entertainment purposes.
quantumist
Temporal Novice
There is an infinite amount of timelines and you cannot manipulate one, you can only create new ones. Think like playing a video game where every choice you make creates a new savegame
Kimberlyd said
Myself I am acutely aware of this phenomenon, as I had seen the effects from some of the aspects of the Montauk related experiments which may have been in my area.To be exact, the news services reporting went out of whack, due to some of the projection expierments they were doing.
They were reporting people to have died when they did not.Events happening when they hadden't happend as of yet, it was a gneral mess.Then I almost phoned in the news concerns asking why the reporting was so whacky., but something had told me then to shut my mouth.I think what had occured was a time ripple, which is similar to someone makeing a wave with a table cloth, while there are still dishes and such placed upon the table top.
I won't disclose who those people were, mainly because the timelines seems to have stabilized down a good bit. So why rake things up?
I had an accident concerning time travel, so am aware what the effects are and when issues go wrong with time travel.I'm pretty sure that this was pre-montauk stuff and not alien interference of any sort.However if you start revving up a big time machine, such as a linear accelerator, this action pushes out time waves and can really screw stuff up beyond all imagination.
It seems to me, that an empire changed, would also greatly effect how that world would work.Pinter
It depends on the amount of change and as to whether this change might be hierarchically sanctioned or not.The alien from Sirius B are supposed to be now helping this Earth in time line engineering.However these beings are highly highly qualified, but you can still get what's known as timeline event slides, which is a product of time engineering too much.
Myself I am acutely aware of this phenomenon, as I had seen the effects from some of the aspects of the Montauk related experiments which may have been in my area.To be exact, the news services reporting went out of whack, due to some of the projection expierments they were doing.
They were reporting people to have died when they did not.Events happening when they hadden't happend as of yet, it was a gneral mess.Then I almost phoned in the news concerns asking why the reporting was so whacky., but something had told me then to shut my mouth.I think what had occured was a time ripple, which is similar to someone makeing a wave with a table cloth, while there are still dishes and such placed upon the table top.
I won't disclose who those people were, mainly because the timelines seems to have stabilized down a good bit. So why rake things up?
I had an accident concerning time travel, so am aware what the effects are and when issues go wrong with time travel.I'm pretty sure that this was pre-montauk stuff and not alien interference of any sort.However if you start revving up a big time machine, such as a linear accelerator, this action pushes out time waves and can really screw stuff up beyond all imagination.
It seems to me, that an empire changed, would also greatly effect how that world would work.Pinter
AuditorMaterial1
Chrono Cadet
"an empire change"... Interesting that comment was made; I recently experienced a time slip. When I was a kid, my mother and sister worked in a pickle packaging plant one year. I was about 5 years old at the time, and after seeing the snakes, birds, and mice swimming around in the outdoor pickle vats, I have never been able to stomach the taste of vinegar since then. I travel the world and have eaten dog in Korea, pigeon in QingDao, scorpions in BeiJing, but for the life of me I cannot stand the taste of vinegar. I'm also a Christian, and have read the entire Bible, and the new testament, especially the gospels, I have read and re-read many times. For decades now, I have jokingly justified my dislike of vinegar by making an arguably out of context argument that goes like this: (1) Jesus rejected vinegar offered to him on a hyssop stalk while on the cross, (2) We are to be like Christ, (3) ergo, we should also reject vinegar. For decades now, this has been a cute way for me to deflect pickles and other vinegary things at family get togethers. Only one small problem now, my wife showed me recently that Jesus DID accept the vinegar offered to him on a hyssop stalk. So then, yes, empires could change, if Jesus' mind could change about accepting vinegar immediately prior to his earthly death.
Love Rooster
Temporal Novice
Then you are changing the rules concerning alternate timelines. Supposedly, they form... begin... when a choice is made. You are saying they form and a past is created in/for that new timeline also.
In our 3-D existence it explodes in all 3 directions but, in the 4th-D of time...it only explodes...forward.BTW, if anyone can figure out how to "un-explode" that water balloon, they would be well on their way to discovering how to go backward in time.