The terrifying thought that this is the good timeline.
Reminds me of a writing prompt years ago about time traveling police preventing other time travelers going back to kill Hitler because those timeliness were worse.
The time traveller exists in this timeline. While it might not be the optimal timeline, it is possibly one of a small subset where the time traveller exists. The time traveller existing is probably a basic requirement for it being among the preferred timelines. But, as Back to the Future showed, you can always time travel, disrupt the past only slightly, and return to a timeline that was better than the one you left.
Wait, this is people’s preferred timeline?
The terrifying thought that this is the good timeline.
Reminds me of a writing prompt years ago about time traveling police preventing other time travelers going back to kill Hitler because those timeliness were worse.
See Stephen King’s:
book
11/22/63
The time traveller exists in this timeline. While it might not be the optimal timeline, it is possibly one of a small subset where the time traveller exists. The time traveller existing is probably a basic requirement for it being among the preferred timelines. But, as Back to the Future showed, you can always time travel, disrupt the past only slightly, and return to a timeline that was better than the one you left.