Book Reccomendation and Time Travel
I just started reading a really great book by Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender's Game. It's called Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus. In a cataclysmic future, nine tenths of the world has been wiped out. Then they develop a way to look into the past and preserve the stories in order to make the world they live in a better place. They realize that there is a bit of "temporal backwash" meaning that small things they do influences the past in ways they can't imagine. Then someone gets the idea to make it so Columbus never reaches Spain in the hopes that it will mean that all the European wars never happened.
This is so relevant, you guys. I have no idea what small event in his life they plan to alter, so I want to hear ideas.
And of course, it brings up the idea of time travel in fiction, and how much more movement can you have than that? I love looking at different theories of how it works. Would history keep the same basic framework with only the details changed? Or is it the Butterfly Effect and one change is monumental for the entire structure? By the way, I feel like I need to clear up some confusion that people tend to have about that theory. The flapping of a butterfly's wing does not create a hurricane, it only shifts where it will end up.
This is so relevant, you guys. I have no idea what small event in his life they plan to alter, so I want to hear ideas.
And of course, it brings up the idea of time travel in fiction, and how much more movement can you have than that? I love looking at different theories of how it works. Would history keep the same basic framework with only the details changed? Or is it the Butterfly Effect and one change is monumental for the entire structure? By the way, I feel like I need to clear up some confusion that people tend to have about that theory. The flapping of a butterfly's wing does not create a hurricane, it only shifts where it will end up.