Hello,

What is your favorite theory about time travel?

• the theory in Harry Potter (one only universe, constant)
  
• the theory in Dragon Ball Z (infinite universes)
  
• the butterfly effet (one only universe, changing)

Back to the future use the third theory (one changing universe).
But they did a lot of errors in the movies.

I would like to write a book with time travel.
And I would like to know which is the best theory to use.

Thanks.

This post was edited by Chevaucheur on Sep 11 2018 03:13pm

They're all pretty stupid tbh, but multi-verse theory is easily the most entertaining of the options imo.

Whichever one had the berenstein bears in it

I cannot handle this new age berenstain bullshit

This post was edited by DefinitelyNotKimmy on Sep 11 2018 05:02pm

I'm really confused as to why you attributed your different ideas to those examples.

Also #2 and #3 are effectively the same thing, except #3 has the bootstrap paradox and #2 doesn't.

Time travel is always stupid

If you are creating a story around it you should really just ignore the mechanics of it and just use it. Not a single story that tries to explain it is ever good.

The good ones are the ones that go "who gives a shit how it works, this is what we are doing with it".

I had an idea for a book with time travel a while ago. I went with the multiverse.

The main character was obsessed with the future, but his time travel machine could only ever go back to the past and back to his current time. So he set out to travel to the past in a parallel universe. He went back to the roman times and helped them and brought with him books, technology, weapons, etc. Basically ensured the survival and evolution of the roman empire. He would stay there for a year at a time and travel back to his time to gather more books and other technology. Making sure to bring only what the romans were capable of learning at the time. He would show up at 50 year intervals in the roman universe. This quickly made him seem like a god to the people there. The roman empire spanned across the entire globe rapidly and they were making leaps and bounds towards the future. The goal of the main character was to reach past his current timeline's technology level and reveal himself to the romans as "just a man" once they were technologically advanced enough to understand that there is no such thing as a God.

There were obviously some story arcs weaved into this to make it more interesting and not so certain.


So yea, I'd say the multiverse theory can make things more interesting.

You want to write a book about it so you do research by asking jsp?

Should be scientifically accurate

None, if it works in the proper context of a movie and it plays out believable I m fine with it.



Time travel
Scientifically accurate

Choose one

Well said. The two can't coexist in reality, it's about crafting a story that makes your version of it work.

If time travel was singleverse then we would have seen time travelers already.

Theories are fun.