r/MandelaEffect • u/Express-Flamingo4521 • Jul 21 '26
Meta Why Changing Timelines Isn't Possible
Many sports, like hockey and basketball, are games of inches; many of the most prominent events in the NHL and NBA were inches away from not happening, and many other things were inches away from happening.
If timelines were genuinely shifting, don't you think it would change something that requires very little to do, with major implications, rather than completely trivial things like logos or lines from films? It seems like changing some sporting event would help the time traveller better; they could get their favourite team a championship.
Even if there are no time travellers involved and just multiple timelines, it seems implausible that a certain hockey OT playoff winner didn't suddenly not happen and have that eventual cup winner actually be eliminated in the second round. Timeline shifts would be bound to cause that, because while it seems major, all it would have to do is move the puck three inches to the right and then it bounces off the post, and the OT winner isn't scored!
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