Poll: Does the past truely effect the future?

[War Penguin]

Yes, every little thing you do has an effect on what you do. Every little action has consequences. Sure, that little action's consequence may not be big, but it's an action non the less.

 

[The_Deleted]

If you went back to 1945 and killed some local in Hiroshima 10 seconds before the bomb dropped, would there be a consequence?

There would be for you... you'd never get back in time and fracture any timeline you've affected from your birth.

 

[bodyklok]

Ahh; the limitless wonders of Cause and Effect: When you do something to something something will happen. I'm not sure that you're really clear on what you're asking here, I know I'm not. But assuming you just want to know weather or not time travel will affect the future then the answer is

Spoiler

Maybe.

I don't believe in destiny. I think that every cause has an effect and thus if you go back in time and cause something (like eating a sammich) it will have an effect; if you want to know what that effect will be they I can't tell you because there are some many variables. However, if you killed Hitler then if would have a very large effect on history.

What I'm fucking trying to say is that if fucking depends on what you do.

But then a game called mass effect came along

Actually this has been around for awhile.

 

[Dr. UBAR]

Most of you are assuming a cause and effect timeline. Try to imagine a effect then a cause. Oh wait they are interchangeable. That's modern physics for you. Making Star Trek look primitive since 1970!

 

[Biosophilogical]

Ever heard that little saying about a butterfly and a tornado ... good, because I forgot it, but regardless, the point is, if you have a different type of sandwich, it might change your mood that day (ever so slightly) and you might make someone else happier by being cheerful, who might make a good meal for dinner making his wife happy, meaning they don't get divorced, they then decide to start a bakery which becomes insanely popular among politicians, then, because it is such a hotspot, it gets bombed to kill some politicians. So then, after all that, you ended up getting a bunch of people killed because you had a different sandwich (maybe not that exact series of events, but you get what I mean, a slight difference can have a domino effect and, given time, can change the entirety of the future).