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> parineum: "If you could go back in time, would you kill Hitler?" If you could go back in time, would you? That whole "Butterfly Effect" thing is more than j
by blooalien 2y ago
> parineum: "If you could go back in time, would you kill Hitler?"
If you could go back in time, would you? That whole "Butterfly Effect" thing is more than just a little terrifying when you start to wander down that rabbit-hole even a little bit. How completely screwed up could the future you return to end up bein', and does it just keep gettin' worse the more you try to "fix" it? Is finding out worth the risk of trying? Just feels like one of those "bells you cannot un-ring". I genuinely hope nobody ever actually invents real time travel. I just cannot see that playing out well at all.
- trilbyglens 2y agoWell you would never know about it. For all you know it's already happened and we're all living an "altered" timeline.
- RajT88 2y agoIndeed. The original "hitler" may well be dead, and we got the worse version.
- blooalien 2y ago> Indeed. The original "hitler" may well be dead, and we got the worse version. In this timeline. In the infinite other timelines, there's an infinity of Hitlers, and another infinity where there never was for an infinity of different reasons. Damned time travelers, creating scary multiverses... ;)
- blooalien 2y agoYeah, but imagine how horrific for the person who caused an altered timeline that didn't play out as they expected? Being the time traveler who caused it, I suspect they'd remember what they'd done and what they expected of the "future" they're "returning" (or traveling?) to. Imagine you've stepped into Rod Serling's Twilight Zone and got the "twist" ending to your time travel story... ;)