"But the future didn't happen yet" yeah, that's what they thought until you traveled to the past

Well, not necessarily, as changes to the past resulting from time travel can create loops, alter memory of both present and future people affected, or even generate alternate timelines. Thus, travelers often must avoid directly affecting events that impact their own existence. So, in other words, we can't know exactly if they've visited us, as it's impossible for us to find out without creating an inconsistency in the fabric of space-time continuum.

quantum leap type shi man but yeah true

I mean, take the Dragon ball Xenoverse games for example. The whole premise of the game is for the player (as their time patroller persona) to prevent anomalies in the timeline quite literally created by time travelers. These anomalies threaten the very fabric of space-time and ruin the continuity of both the main and alternate timelines in the series, thus further emphasizing the effect altering the past can have on the future

Damn right I did

yeah the year is 1987 when i'm typing this

"WAS THAT THE COMMENT OF 87'?!"

COOKING STRAIGHT PEAK

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read the other comments by them it gets worse

I'll handle this

thanks

Care to join me in jumpin this fool?

sure

i don't see your comments yet

The choices of what the said traveler does, whether talking or not talking to persons/ things rooted in that time, moving or not moving objects, existing in said place and time or not, create a butterfly effect across basically everything with enormous consequences, such as possibly changing historical events, culture, the biology of single and multicellular life, to even possibly how quantum mechanics works from said effects/ actions.

Precisely. The butterfly effect is possibly the most flawless example of what said consequences could result in, as this principal goes hand in hand with the concepts of travelling through time.

you say hi to someone in 2025, 1 year ago, and it could cause world war III

Precisely

I'd just travel to the future and back to know what the winning lotto numbers are.

Smart

so I could actually go take school in 2015 and have AI do all my stuff for me and nobody would ever know it

Yessss

It's cuz we're the first timeline bro

Or so we think

Why would they want to visit now of all times tho

Ok, I'm about to explain a theory:
So if people haven't already visited us, it might be because it would cause a resulting change of events, tampering with the future is especially dangerous (source: sci-fi movies) and get this, it might result in a catastrophic chain of events, for example time travelling never being invented, which isn't really that catastrophic but still.
I'm sorry if I made anyone's head hurt, but correct me if you have a theory 😭

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Ok, this is making my head hurt

sorry 😭😅

So you're saying not even 1 dumbass traveled back in time to tell everyone about the future

chances are if time travel was invented it would be heavily restricted from the public

Mass fear and paranoia could go around in the public scene, people could believe there are time travelers in the world possibly negatively influencing past, present, and future events, and the governments probably wouldn't want that

but what if time travel was illegal in the future? it would be possible but still nobody from the future would visit us

I think most people time traveled back to the 1500s

Or maybe they're keeping it a secret because it would cause bad things to the earth.

well, not necessarily... if the future ends up better than life is now, there would be no reason to change anything since it all led up to that anyway. and plus, why visit a place thats objectively worse than where you already are?

either that or everyone died before we could invent time travel

I would say the former is more likely to happen("why visit a boring, hard past when we have everything here?"), but the latter could also happen, i.e., warfare, plagues, invasion, universe death, etc

"Time is like a string. On one end is birth, the other death. You put them together, and you get a loop. If I can travel fast enough along the loop, I will eventually end up back at the beginning of my life."

In theory when a person enters the past, in order for the universe to not kaboom it creates a separate one you teleport ed in and its like a rage room, everything is cleared after.

True

plausible

Nice new username for spoopy season

Thanks

maybe they don’t visit this time period because people are idiots and the economy is long dead