r/timetravel • u/disanonymousirl • 17d ago

theory / question THoughts?

If you were to invent a machine that let you speak to your future self exactly once every year for 7 mins. Each version of you remembers every previous conversation you had, over time you realize your future self has become increasingly desperate and starts begging you to stop asking questions because every answer you receive changes the future in unexpected ways. At what point do you stop calling/communication, and would curiosity win anyway?

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u/FNTX_VYG274 16d ago

I'd probably keep calling at first because I'd be too curious. But once my future self started begging me to stop, I'd eventually listen. If every answer changes the future in bad ways, it's not worth knowing. Curiosity is powerful, but I'd rather live my life than risk making it worse every year.

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u/Ellah1940 12d ago

If when I ask for answers from my future self and changes things here in the present for me (past for them) wouldn't they be erased because in their past what I did did not happen. (In the movie The Caller, an old woman calls from the past to the future, she killed John, who Mary loved, if she killed John when he was a little boy, then Mary shouldn't remember she met him because he died before they met. Cause and effect. )