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Originally Posted by francois60
Say you go back in time and run over a cat on accident. That sets off a chain of events, and so on. Now, if you go back in time and kill yourself before you run the cat over but somebody sees you do this, it sets off another chain (though you arguably "fixed" the problem).
Naw, what I'm saying is let's say a cat jumps in front of your car. Two timelines exist already(and presumably always existed since the Big Bang). One in which you hit the cat and one in which you don't. You will go down one of those timelines and continue on, just as if you chose the right fork in a road. If you go back in time, you can choose the left fork, but you haven't changed anything but your own direction. The road never changed.
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Ah, so you view time as a road that has different turns and roads that are predestined and sitting to be chosen (whether by way of fate or multiple universes coexisting). That could very well be true. I see it
sort of similarly but looking at my explanation, I guess I view it as a continual road (or roads) which is being paved for a person individually by each persons actions.
By your analogy, I believe (in terms of time travel to the past) different roads
can be created, but after a change it's a set of lanes in which one tends to erase itself once you switch lanes. By that I mean it is irrelevant once you've changed lanes (or the a mistake in the past), because the one you're on is now your reality. Ay...time travel. My avatar captures how I feel after an hour long discussion of time travel.