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
    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Basically, time is your body’s sensation of the inevitable terror that is the heatdeath of the universe.

      This doesn’t appear to pertain to gravity wells.

        • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Yes, I know how special relativity relates space and time together, and that gravity is a warping of space, but I don’t see how this matters in the context of my comment.

          • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            If time moves faster at the bottom of a gravity well, and terror increases with the speed of time, then what can we infer?

              • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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                6 months ago

                That I’m trying to make a joke, but you’re too dense to get it. Maybe you’ve created your own gravity well.

                • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  6 months ago

                  I don’t think so, I think you fucked up your understanding of my comment, and rather that admit it, you’ve gone on a 12 post goose chase to try and avoid admitting that you didn’t understand anything I wrote. Just own it dude, it’s okay to be wrong sometimes.

                  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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                    6 months ago

                    I probably wouldn’t have responded if I’d known you were just an asshole too stupid to actually understand the topic at hand.