Application and Purpose

It was a fine line, tampering with the past. Too little and nothing is noticeable, too much and people can question their sanity. Thankfully the technology was sufficiently advanced that manipulating variables was as simple as working on a spreadsheet. Overall the application was fairly conservative, which meant that actually changing anything was more exponentially more work than typical non-invasive 'observation only' operations. The cascade from changes could grow indefinitely, or collapse without warning. The question of what would be worth influencing came up rather often. With the changes in the world, erasing past disasters and mistakes was essentially pointless. Not many things survived the cataclysm, so material changes were also for naught. Still there was not specific rule against it, even if the necessity wasn't there.

The main obstacle was one of synchronization, if left unchecked, one would automatically be re-incorporated into linear, non-adjusted time. He started looking for some nonlinear tools to quantify the interactions.

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