
Episode 5: The Avengers, Time Travel, and The Deutsch Proposition
The Theory of Anything
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Time Travel Is Not a Misnomer
Time travel is actually going back to a moment you were in before it's just your causative branch from that point forward. If we did have real time travel it would behave like our virtual reality simulation where it would be different but all the parallel worlds would connect up in consistent ways. A copy of me has the same intention as I do but by carrying out that intention ends up behaving differently than me remarkably this is precisely what quantum theory does predict so interesting now how does this work for Avengers well think about how the Hulk goes back in time and he meets the ancient one before she dies. They can't change their present or their future by going in the past but they do change that parallel universe
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