Returning to original timeline/universe

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I know it’s highly unlikely any of us have time travel, if any at all, but let’s say hypothetically, one of us managed to travel to the distant past, accidentally altered the past, and thus the future. Would it be possible in theory for one to return to their original timeline? Thanks
 

NaturalPhilosopher

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I know it’s highly unlikely any of us have time travel, if any at all, but let’s say hypothetically, one of us managed to travel to the distant past, accidentally altered the past, and thus the future. Would it be possible in theory for one to return to their original timeline? Thanks
yes
requires you to build a timeline detector and then navigate back.
each timeline is delineated from each other due to each timeline having a different speed of time.
so by having a device that can compare it to a reference time then you know how diverged you are.

this is why worldline divergence even happens at all to begin with.
an increasing or decreasing field causes divergence.

of course unless you make a feedback system that maintains the same dimension.
 

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NaturalPhilosopher

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tesla's invention that used rotating gears that would synchronize it's spin into something non physical.
it's a hyperspace compass

tesla's whirlygig(zero time reference generator) wasn't a worldline divergence instrument. was a spatial compass to point to a certain location in outer space. It's necessary for gravity propulsion systems to navigate. Otherwise if you take other pathways through space you end up wildly time traveling.
 
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TimeFlipper

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yes
requires you to build a timeline detector and then navigate back.
each timeline is delineated from each other due to each timeline having a different speed of time.
so by having a device that can compare it to a reference time then you know how diverged you are.

this is why worldline divergence even happens at all to begin with.
an increasing or decreasing field causes divergence.

of course unless you make a feedback system that maintains the same dimension.

Perhaps you could tell all of us how to make a timeline detector, or are you just winding all of us up again, you bad bad boy? :p :LOL:..
 

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