Lauren Weinstein@melissadancey That's not how temporal adjustments are done. You don't try to convince anyone of anything. You make calculated changes yourself (in conjunction with your team and appropriate approvals) to adjust the timeline. Usually, you keep your own presence as minimal as possible to avoid uncalculated variations. Calculated changes can be extremely small -- we call them MNCs -- Minimum Necessary Changes. These can be as simple as moving a can a few inches on a shelf. I'm not at liberty to go into more detail about this.
Cassandrich@lauren @melissadancey See: In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)
Perrin42"These can be as simple as moving a can a few inches on a shelf."
Pretty sure I read that book. End of Eternity, Asimov.
Steve Bellovin
ResunaThe butterfly effect is a bitch. It's basically impossible to interact with the timeline before your birth without keeping yourself from being born. In _A Sound of Thunder_... after the first trip to the Cretaceous humanity would never have evolved.
I think Charlie Stross's "Palimpsest" is the only novel I can recall that takes this seriously.
ggdupont@resuna
@lauren @melissadancey
That's what "big time travel" industry want you to believe so they can keep the tech for their own benefits.
@lauren @melissadancey
That's what "big time travel" industry want you to believe so they can keep the tech for their own benefits.
@gdupont @lauren @melissadancey @cstross
Asimov wrote that story already. "The Dead Past".