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Hi /sci/ lately i've started getting really interested in time traveling. What do I need to know to understand time travel? Explain.

>> No.2906882

SINCE IT'S FICTITIOUS, JUST WRITE YOURSELF A SET OF RULES AND AXIOMS AND EXTRAPOLATE THOSE TO THEIR LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS.

EXAMPLE:
IN A CASE OF SINGLE-TIMELINE TIME TRAVEL, EVERYTHING THAT TIME TRAVEL POSSIBLY CAN OR EVER WILL DO HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE, AND THE UNIVERSE BEING EXPERIENCED WAS THE "FINAL REVISION," SO TO SPEAK.

AS A CONSEQUENCE, THE ONLY OPTION IS THAT EXACTLY ONE CIVILIZATION/FACTION/PLANET/ETC WILL FIGURE OUT TIME TRAVEL IN SUCH A UNIVERSE (AS THEY ARE THE ONES WHO RETCONNED THE OTHERS OUT OF EXISTENCE), OR EXACTLY ZERO.

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People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey... stuff.