Maybe an incipient causal loop is a potential causal loop that requires Patrol intervention to close it and that, without such intervention, will become a major causality violation?
When Everard says that an incipient causal loop can cause catastrophically multiplying historical changes, how does he claim to know this? Do Time Patrol records include accounts of such catastrophes and, if so, how were they rectified? The alpha and beta timelines have not yet happened in terms of Everard's experience.
What is a catastrophically multiplying change? If the changes, however complicated, have one initial cause, will it not be sufficient to identify and reverse that single event?
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
As we see in several of the Time Patrol stories, it was thought enough to reverse or prevent the "one initial cause" to prevent those "catastrophically multiplying changes."
Ad astra! Sean
There are mentions in several stories of cases of mutiplying changes kept on record and shown to some Patrol agents as a warning — probably including the events of “Delenda Est” !
What they’re afraid of, I think, is cases where the changes multiply and reinforce each other enough to overcome the “intertia” of time that tends to push events back towards the original timeline.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Hence we see agents like Guion, specializing in investigating seemingly minor "perturbations" in the timelines, because such changes could too easily multiply and reinforce each other.
Ad astra! Sean
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