Originally posted by bullet1968
Interesting steve, indeed. But why if he can travel 'around' in time could he not hook back into his own time?? If he has left his own time (if I have this right) then his original timeline then exists without him? So what happens in the original timeline?
Well as time is in a continues forward movement if you were to travel back in time 10 years, when you left your time you would be breaking of from your timeline and enter the same one at a different time, but as you we're not there before, you disrupt the timeline and it fractures off and creates a new. This would be an "alternate" timeline. No matter what changes you make in this timeline you would not be editing the original. And as you spend time in this new timeline, lets say a week, time would be passing at the same rate for your original timeline... which means you are no longer present, and your family are all missing you, as you've essentially just vanished... never to be seen again.
But that's the thing with time travel, you could just jump back to one minute after you left your original timeline, and all would be well, right? No.
When you reentered your timeline one minute after you left, time would fracture again, as you don't belong... Time has already moved on without you. Events have already played out, and millions of permutation of your original timeline now exist, and it would be impossible for it to reintegrate you into them all. So as a means of self preservation, you would be set off on your own "new" timeline.
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