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<blockquote data-quote="Thelema" data-source="post: 251517" data-attributes="member: 15114"><p>This is the go-to explanation for why information supposedly gleaned through time travel doesn't come to fruition. The main benefit is that it introduces lack of verifiability - time travel now works even when it doesn't. The problem is that it doesn't stand up to much scrutiny.</p><p></p><p>At the most basic level, it begs the question - what makes you think that you time traveled in the first place? Maybe you just had a very vivid dream/daydream instead of some kind of time travel/astral travel, for example. Doesn't that seem more likely? An "alternate timeline" seems pretty indistinguishable from "your own imagination" in all possible respects... and there is nothing to indicate that it's anything but that.</p><p></p><p>Even if it was some other timeline, it must be quite similar to our own if it's recognizable to you and possibly could confuse you into thinking that it was legitimate. For example, if it was some timeline in which the Roman Empire never fell and everyone around you was speaking Latin, there'd be no confusion as to whether or not this is something different. But many time travelers who rely on the "alternate timeline" hypothesis don't seem to realize this until their predictions come back false. Surely at least some of the predictions would be true, if the timelines appear so close that you can't tell the difference until proven wrong.</p><p></p><p>It also makes me wonder why time travelers never seem to report such huge variances. Deviations from the present day are usually explained by a difference in future events, rather than an extreme departure from baseline in past events. If there really are an infinite number of timelines where all possibilities have occurred, then you'd think that the vast majority of them would look absolutely nothing like our world. How many timelines could result in something similar to what we have now? Less than a fraction of one percent? Most of them would probably have intelligent life never evolving.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thelema, post: 251517, member: 15114"] This is the go-to explanation for why information supposedly gleaned through time travel doesn't come to fruition. The main benefit is that it introduces lack of verifiability - time travel now works even when it doesn't. The problem is that it doesn't stand up to much scrutiny. At the most basic level, it begs the question - what makes you think that you time traveled in the first place? Maybe you just had a very vivid dream/daydream instead of some kind of time travel/astral travel, for example. Doesn't that seem more likely? An "alternate timeline" seems pretty indistinguishable from "your own imagination" in all possible respects... and there is nothing to indicate that it's anything but that. Even if it was some other timeline, it must be quite similar to our own if it's recognizable to you and possibly could confuse you into thinking that it was legitimate. For example, if it was some timeline in which the Roman Empire never fell and everyone around you was speaking Latin, there'd be no confusion as to whether or not this is something different. But many time travelers who rely on the "alternate timeline" hypothesis don't seem to realize this until their predictions come back false. Surely at least some of the predictions would be true, if the timelines appear so close that you can't tell the difference until proven wrong. It also makes me wonder why time travelers never seem to report such huge variances. Deviations from the present day are usually explained by a difference in future events, rather than an extreme departure from baseline in past events. If there really are an infinite number of timelines where all possibilities have occurred, then you'd think that the vast majority of them would look absolutely nothing like our world. How many timelines could result in something similar to what we have now? Less than a fraction of one percent? Most of them would probably have intelligent life never evolving. [/QUOTE]
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