Some ideas are:

  • You branch off into another timeline and your actions make no difference to the previous timeline
  • You’ve already taken said actions but just didn’t know about it so nothing changes
  • Actions taken can have an effect (so you could suddenly erase yourself if you killed your parents)
  • Only “nexus” or fixed events really matter, the timeline will sort itself out for minor changes
  • something else entirely
  • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
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    6 days ago

    If you screw up the calculation, your time machine can also end up deep under the mantle of the Earth. That would be a pretty spicy way to travel.