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I don't think that every event is equally important or that any event is "special". Rather, the avoidance of paradoxes is. You just have to ensure the alternate
by thisiszilff 6y ago
I don't think that every event is equally important or that any event is "special". Rather, the avoidance of paradoxes is. You just have to ensure the alternate history you get with respect to an action (or an event) doesn't preclude that event from happening. So if you go back to stop a disease from escaping a lab in Texas, that doesn't stop the disease from escaping two months later from a lab in California. The key is the avoidance of paradoxes.
- setr 6y agoThe problem is, assuming the butterfly effect, anything you change could trigger the paradox -- and the further you go back, the less work you need to do find a trigger. I mean you can't even cause the timeline in which you decide to go back to change; your memory would either have to be altered to match [a paradox: which memory was "first"? Neither] or you'd have a memory from a timeline that never existed [does that count as a paradox?]