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Originally Posted by Mechatrill
I think we have different definitions of what "butterfly effect" means...
"Butterfly effect", by my understanding, means that a seemingly small action may have a large effect over time, much like how a butterfly flapping its wings may cause a hurricane on the other side of the world at some time in the future. It doesn't have anything to do with time travel or paradox or whatever...
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The butterfly effect only applies when you dont create alternate universe for the time traveler.
The time traveler hence then can cause paradoxes.
The key word is paradox. You light a fire in a forest and accidentally burn it down... go back to the future, the forest is gone. The tiny match u accidentally dropped has lead a ripple effect which changes history in your personal timeline. Ie.. the small flutter of a butterfly wing, can cause a typhoon on the other side of the world. (this only holds in single universe)
In a multi-verse, time has already accounted for the MC to travel into a different universe and his actions were already recorded. Hence no paradox or butterfly effect. Its best not to even think of the multiverse as time travel, which is what the MC realized when people that should of died, didnt die.
The multiverse (or meta-universe)
is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes (including the historical universe we consistently experience)that together comprise everything that exists and can exist: the entirety of space, time, matter, and energy as well as the physical laws and constants that describe them.
Because time has already RECORDED his actions.
And we are watching his story in the new universe which already recorded his actions.
Time travel is a PITFA.
There are too many rules you have to be bound by.
Hence why paralell or multiverse rules tend to be easier to write about.
Because the person who controls the multiverse is the author himself, and not history.