Or continuity of reality fixes it each time.
Grandfather wasnt really the grandfather so shooting him before he
married etc didnt uncreate the parent of the time traveler. If shot to
prevent stories, grandmother remarried giving new set of stories! LOL. I
have always been found of self healing timelines. You can only cause
minor disruptions that restabilize. The newest Time Machine movie did
some of that when he saved his girlfriend over and over to see her die
by another method. He would not have made the time machine if she lived
so she had to die.
But the easiest is the infinite alternatities. All events split the
universe so go back to change something and you just made more splits,
have fun finding the one you want since the timeline you left wont have
this event in it. All he can do is make an alternate happy etc.
There is some stories that use some of that too, people seeing the
future as a cloud of possibilites and trying to decide what path to take
to narrow those to what they want to occur. Of course the more serious
the events the more possible outcomes and chances for others to change
it making it hard to control
Received on Sun Apr 25 2004 - 12:39:39 CDT