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

      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.

                • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  6 months ago

                  Uh huh… And when you were challenged about that assumption, you were unable to point to my lack of understanding on my own comment? That’s an impressive degree of narcissism right there, to think that I didn’t know what I wrote, while being unable to explain or provide evidence backing your assertion… Then you doubled down on what you said, then tripled, then tried to insinuate that I didn’t learn about a basic high school physics principle, then said it was going to be part of a joke that I wouldn’t understand (without making any attempt to actually create a joke) and the went with an low-effort ad hominem attack instead. And now you’re just attacking me, and not even in a funny, relevant, or creative way. Do you want to make an attempt to actually defend what you said, or do you just get off on being obtuse, wrong, and being intellectually browbeaten?

                  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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                    6 months ago

                    I get that you’re mad at your inability to understand the connection I made. It’s OK. You don’t need to keep throwing a tantrum about it.