Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160711184711/@comment-25936766-20160808203021

Sentry 616 wrote:

If one were to send a message back in time to change events, the cost of sending that message is unimportant as they would not need to send that message because the situation chnanged. The Aura cost would be irrelevant. ....Sentry, that's the Grandfather Paradox. Which I did explain how to solve. First, Required Secondary Powers, in this case the Ripple Effect-Proof Memory. Basically, the user retains memories from before, thus:

1-They send the message.

2-Something changes.

3-They know how it was "before" and that it changed, that the previous present was overwritten by the current present. So they know they sent the message, and their reasons for doing so, thus avoiding the whole paradox.

3.2-As for the Aura Cost, I was thinking of the Aura being unaffected as well. The user knows they sent the message and their Aura doesn't inmediately recover as if they never sent anything even when the changes arrive (if you go the Delayed Ripple Effect route).

@Phantom: Adjusting the speed of the flow of time? Moving backwards in time? The hell are you talking about? The Semblance doesn't have anything like that at all.

Did you confuse Achron's gameplay and it's solution to the Grandfather Paradox, with the actual Semblance?

@Ray: Depends. Like Sentry said, it depends on the situation. On one hand, there's Butterfly Effect, even the smallest thing can have great consequences. On the other hand, there's Ontological Inertia, or "Law of Reality Conservation": Even if you change the past, the present and future stay pretty much the same, either because the consequences were much smaller than expected, or because something coincidental happened after the change which leads to pretty much the same present. (In it's case, the only way to truly avoid it is by making huge changes, which is dangerous and also require much more intervention).

So, let's say you kill Hitler before WW2. BE says WW2 doesn't happen, and people did not learn from it as a result, and you live in a different house with a different idiot running for president. While OI says it still happens, the Nazis are replaced by Nazis with a different name, and Hitler is replaced by an equally-crazy bastard, and in the end, you are still in your house, with your clothes, while Trump is ruining for president.

It's things like this that remind you that pretty much all things about time are theories instead of facts.....

@Mini: Not actual time travel. Just sending a message to someone up to 1 min in the past. And just a spoken message, not an object, not an image, just a voice. May change something, or nothing.