I have a theory, but it doesnt make sense

I think that, if time traveling were possible, the idea of destiny would be invalid. There would have to be a different concept. Let me think...

What if, hear me out, a time travel machine was really just a portal to a certain parallel universe, in which, the date was the same as the date wanted to travel to. Let’s put this into perspective for a moment:

Imagine there were 1 billion parallel universes, each with the same events as our universe, and each being one minute ahead or behind another parallel universe. Ex: Pretend it is 7:00 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) in our universe, the main universe. Parallel universe +1 would be at 7:01 UTC, one minute later than the main universe, While Parallel Universe -1 would be at 6:59 UTC, one earlier, parallel universe +2 at 7:02 UTC, and Parallel Universe -2 at 6:58, and so on. Let’s say Bill wanted to go back in time to 6:55 UTC at 7 o-clock, he would need to go to parallel universe -5, 5 minutes earlier than the main universe he was in.

Now, using websites, you’ve probably heard the term “redirect” before. Now what if the time travel machine was actually a redirection tool. For example:

Let’s say there was a website called thebestwebsitesforeverything.com. Laura wanted to find the best websites for gardening advice, so she went to the best websites for everything website. The opening page was a simple search box. She typed in the keyword “gardening”, and up popped up gardening101.com. She clicked the link to gardening 101, and it took her through a [virtual] portal and directed her to The website. That is redirecting.

Now, what if these same physics were brought to real life. Instead of going to thebestwebsitesforeverything.com, Jaiden opened the time machine GUI. Then, Instead of typing “gardening“, she types the date and time she wants to go to in a code, like 16:38/20/06/2020. Instead of a link to a website, it shows Jaiden a link to the correct portal, which she must go through to enter the correct parallel universe.

Then that wouldn’t cancel out the idea of destiny itself. It would just mean there would be a different destiny for each parallel universe.

PLEASE READ THIS. I spent like an hour on this answer. Ask any questions

what I think of time travel (I thought of it while watching The Flash)
if you were destined to time travel, then you were destined to time travel. Which means you were destined to time travel, which means you were destined to time travel, and so on. It feels like an infinite loop to me.

yea, except it's not real XD

well yeah.

FUZHOU
XD I'm having to much fun with this

yep XD

It’s possible but you need to a lot of energy to do it

But that's assuming that one believes in predestination! I believe in a combination of predestination and free will, in which God already knows how everything will play out, largely because for every possibility, there is another parallel universe that forms to accommodate that. So, from my perspective, if you were to time travel so you could change your past, you're really just creating another alternate universe in which future you time traveled, and put you on another course of action. So technically, you're not changing your own past. You're simply adding more possibilities to play out in the multiverse, none of which you'll experience in your own past.

I have strange ideas, I know. It's a side effect of reading too much. Then again, that's probably a good thing. I'd much rather have strange ideas of my own, rather than have mundane ideas that everybody else already has thought of, or, even worse, not be able to think for myself.

Sorry if I threw you into utter confusion,
Ælfwine Elf-friend

woah

Look at mine. Two minds alike :)

Oh wait

Shet you did yours first lol

“the geographical South Pole is the only place you can time travel step backwards and you go to yesterday, step forward and you go to tomorrow, step in the middle go back to today*

If you time travel and fix the problem then you have no need to time travel, but then if you have no need to time travel then the problem never gets fixed.

if you time travel there will always be another problem when you come back

Yes! That’s a better way to put it!

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You can't totally change your destiny but you change the world around you by attempting to. If you were destined to time travel and time travel to do so you still fulfill your destiny, but you end up changing something about your current reality.

yeah

tbh, there is no true way to change your destiny.

like I watch The Flash, and-

hold on, can I spoil it for you?

I still haven't seen it nor do I think I will and you let me spoil the book thief for you, so sure, knock yourself out

ok so theres this evil guy from the future that killed barry's mom, and then barry went in the past but couldn't save his mom. do you know why? because it would greatly affect the future. He would never had lived with joe and iris, and he would have never became the flash. But then Eddie killed himself when future guy was gonna kill barry, because future guy is a descendant of Eddie. But if he never existed, then he never killed barry's mom, and the particle accelerator never exploded, so barry would have never created the flash, which created this giant hole in the sky because since future guy never existed they wouldn't be where they are. Thanks, Eddie. But if he had killed Barry, he wouldn't have gone back in time and saved kid version of him so he'd be dead anyways. So basically in that one scene, if ANYONE died then the world would greatly change. Yay.

my point is, time travel is HUGE. If you do it once, something will change no matter what you do and the world will never be the same oohhoh

but seriously. time travel's a huge thing, and if it truly existed never think about doing it because it will impact everything. it actually is a really deep thing.

Yesh, yesh it is. Just watch Bill and Ted's excellent adventure

lol.

Why wouldn’t it still be your destiny? Chains of cause and reaction, memory usually drives actions and thought. Are you really expressing free will to start with or is real free will more spontaneous? Is destiny simply existing or an attribute of time? Lol

Del please look at the answer I commented on my comment. I spent like an hour on it

I did see
that was awesome

Ok good