I remember reading A Sound of Thunder and also watching it with an ex boyfriend a while ago. The short premise is of a business that allowed for hunting dinosaurs 65 million years ago but just the ones that would die anyway to not cause a problem.
My question is, if someone did change a significant event in the past, how would any of us know?
Would everyone’s lives today instantly change and we wouldn’t know the difference? Or would we be conscious of the changes?
We would carry on in our new lives not knowing anything changed. Nothing would feel different either.
We would be conscious fully of our world and people changing around us
We wouldn’t know what changed but something would feel very wrong but no one could say why
Nothing would change here but a second branch creating a secondary history would be created
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because the temporal directive prevents anyone who travels to the past to change or alter events that would effect the present or future. these protocols were specifically put into place and anyone who was caught trying to alter the past (which some have tried to do) were imprisoned and the "time police" or certain divisions in the government had to go back in the past to correct those temporal altercations. each time an event in the past is altered it created a new timeline a new alternate universe. when events in the past are altered it created a ripple effect unfortunately during the ripple effect none of us are aware of this only those who traveled back to the past are aware of the new alternate timeline which is why the events of the past get corrected to undo whatever changes the ripple effect has caused. you can look up ripple effect and butterfly effect online to see what i mean. each altercation of the past creates a new timeline or new alternate universe through the ripple effect
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but no you won't know unless you traveled in the past yourself and back to the present day that is the only way you can retain your current memories of the way things should be and of the way things were
If you look back in history, the number of pivotal events that were a throw of the dice, so close to call but one side won and everything went down that time line.
There are numerous books on it, some really good.
One of the big points is how little an action can cause a large one (butterfly in image).
Taking the dinosaur premise where only those who die out are hunted.
What if one of those killed the following day was standing next to a distant ancestor of mammals, say a canine ancestor.
with the dinosaur there, a group of raptor meat eaters attacks and kills it.
without the dinosaur (hunted by man previous day), the raptors kills all the canine ancestors in that one area.
This means early man is without dogs to help him hunt etc and fails to progress, maybe giving Neanderthal man a better chance, however the end result is a different timeline simply because the 🦕 was not eaten.
A really interesting question, but one that's impossible to answer. My guess is that any changes wouldn't be noticed by us, because from our perspective the change to our history would have always been the "official version", and the alternative, parallel reality would have been terminated at the point of departure in the timeline. Alternative history is something I think about a lot, and I've read countless short stories and novels on the subject (ex. 'How Few Remain', by Harry Turtledove).
It will be in the script! However, if it’s not, or you just didn’t read that far… ask the director “what’s my motivation” and he/she will tell you that you only have 24hrs until the changes become “l time locked” and there will be NOTHING a you can do to solve the main plot-threat! So get a move on… Thais film isn’t going to make itself!
Like let's say you went back to past and stopped meteors from killing the dinosaurs. At that moment, the timeline got split into 2 possibilities: alive dinosaurs (your timeline) and dead dinosaurs (my timeline)
It's similar to Schrodinger cat: until you take an action, all the possible events are existing. The moment you take the action, a certainty occurs.
Well, I've noticed a few oddities in the past few years! Some things that I've ALWAYS known and remembered to be one way and, suddenly, they've changed! I can't recall what it was, at the moment but, I just had one last month. I think it had something to do with the look of a picture or a record label or even the way a recording is/was. Maybe even one of my own.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what it's called. I just can't latch onto what it was. Every time I try, I keep getting the image of record with a black label and possibly starts with the letter, M. like the early `80's version of Monument records. The thing is, if it IS to do with a record label, I've been surrounded by records since I was in grade school and have almost 60,000 of them, now so, this is a subject i know A LOT about and if it IS about a label, it's something I've seen and known about for DECADES and, suddenly, it's not the way I remember it? And, I seem to recall that, whatever it is, I have proof that it WAS the way I remembered it. I just have to remember what it was. It's like, two days ago, I was trying to recall the name of a girl I was involved with romantically about 35 years ago and couldn't recall her name to save my life!! The next day, I wake up and get out of bed and her name just drops out of my mouth! Melanie Capuzzo! So, maybe it'll just pop back into my head when I'm NOT trying to remember it!
It depends I guess. If the universe is cause and effect and far back enough, a good portion of us would blink out of existence. If certain things will happen regardless of past events shit might get whacky. But I don't think time travel backwards is even possible, so we're safe I think.
In our life in general, there's a usual patterns of things that keep on repeating and if they changed that would be because an irrational human had changed anything in the past thinking that would fix problems but actually that would have a bad impact because that problem was meant to happen for a reason and if we skip that problem without recognizing our mistakes and understanding the situation more we'll never be able to learn the right thing
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