Timey-Wimey Ball: Difference between revisions

Excepting [[The Slow Path|mundane travel from the past to the future at a rate of one second per second]]<ref>For all you physics buffs out there, yes, this does imply that [[Time Travel]] is unitless.</ref>, no human has ever experienced [[Time Travel]] first hand. Indeed, we don't know if it's even possible<ref>Albert Einstein's mathematics show it is achievable by [[Time Dilation]] through accelerating to high speeds, but only towards the future and without a way back. We also know that gravity slows down time, meaning that you if you are in space your one second per second would be negligibly faster than on earth. Possibly exempting astronauts who, having been whirling around the earth at high speeds, have travelled a few seconds or minutes into the future depending on how long they have been in space.</ref>. So debating [[Our Time Travel Is Different|which time travel]] [[Temporal Mutability|theory is right]] is much like trying to find the best flavor of Kool-Aid. Fans [[Bellisarios Maxim|are aware and accepting of this]], just like no one minds when [[Our Monsters Are Different|our monsters are different]], or two different series have [[Functional Magic|different rules for magic,]] so long as the series' [[Magic a Is Magic A|own internal rules are consistent.]]

Of course, sometimes they aren't. The Timey Wimey Ball is the result of a series or movie where the writers are a wee bit confused or forgetful about exactly ''which'' kind of time travel can happen, sometimes within the span of one episode! One day [[You Can't Fight Fate]] (or at least not without the [[Butterfly of Doom]] coming along), but the next you can [[Screw Destiny]] and [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] by [[Hitlers Time Travel Exemption Act|killing Hitler]] and changing the past for the better. Especially headachy because there's no [[Temporal Paradox]], or if there is it's totally arbitrary.