Time Travelers Beware

Shamus Young presents some really amazing points, that I never sat down to consider , pertaining to Time Travel.

Here’s what he had to say about the far reaching consequences of meddling with the most chaotic event, when traveling back in time:

Apply that same thinking to an even more chaotic event: Conception. Anyone that you interact with in the past will be nudged off of their original rails and onto an imperceptibly new path. This change will be slight only until the moment when they are involved with the conception of a child. Even if the kid is conceived on the same day at roughly the same time (which isn’t a guarantee) it’s going to be a different kid than was rolled in the timeline before you began mucking about. That different kid will live their entire life, nudging everyone else off of their behavior rails, resulting in different children for everyone they meet, and so on.