People always write time travel as
something happening in the 'now' – as if the ragged edge of
perception as meaning to the future. All the the past is past to the
future, so what happens if time travel happens to you before what you
consider 'now'? Will new memories drift into place? Will things
shift without you knowing?
To wit, what is the past in the first
place? Is it not just a shared memory of events and some physical
evidence that suggest some agreement? If neither of these things are
disturbed, how do we know the past as still and unchanged?
What if changes were made but some
were isolated from them? Would their memories be different than the
rest of us? What would the evidence point to?
One often imagines time travel as some
wild, haphazard adventure, but really, would it not be something more
controlled, even at a granular level? It could easily be imagined
that scanning, detecting changes and managing outcomes be at an
almost molecular capacity in scope.
When one considers the improvement in
the human condition, lack of motivation by greed, anger and other
such negative traits – would there be much chance at all for error
or corruption? Would then all such actions have to be deliberate for
all involved? If certain actions in the past were not allowed, would
there ever be a chance for disobedience?
What circumstances were permit an
exception?
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