One Aspect Of The Paradox II

 

In the Time Patrol scenario, we have to be able to discuss the contents of alternative timelines and also the relationships between such timelines whatever we think about their ontological status. Guion does this when interviewing Wanda Tamberly. The cause of a disturbance in the world lines might lie outside our yet.

In the previous post, even if it is said that the Danellian timeline has ceased to exist, that now non-existent timeline would have been one in which Patrolmen wondered what had become of disappeared colleagues. Even if it is said that the Danellian timeline has never existed, that timeline, if it had existed, would have been one in which Patrolmen wondered etc.

We can clarify quite a lot about timelines before we agree or disagree as to whether they exist.