The Danellian continues:
"'Think, if you wish, of diffraction, waves reinforcing here and canceling there to make rainbow rings. It is incessant, but normally on the human level it is imperceptible. When it chanced to converge powerfully on Lorenzo de Conti, yes, then that became like a kind of fate. Do not let it overawe you that you, exercising your free will, have overcome doom itself.'" (pp. 434-435)
If quantum waves incessantly but imperceptibly change the course of events, then each imperceptibly different course of events comprises a different timeline. Human beings in each timeline will remember the past of their own timeline, not the past of any preceding timeline. Therefore, they will not notice the changes in the course of events.
(Notice that there are two "pasts" here. In this moment, I remember past moments in my timeline. If my timeline has succeeded other timelines, then those timelines are also "past" although not in the same temporal dimension.)
The only people who notice a change in the course of events are those, like Keith Denison, who have, e.g, traveled from 1980 to 1765 BC in one timeline, then traveled futureward to 1980alpha in a succeeding timeline.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Then time traveling would be like sometimes accidentally going to alternate worlds.
Ad astra! Sean
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