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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