Given that this universe settled on an explicit message about not messing with time, and given how much magic apparently involves naive mental entities, it seems like anthropomorphizing the laws of physics is a much more useful heuristic in the HP universe than it is in ours.
I was thinking about how I’d implement HPMoR-style time-travel in a turing machine, actually.
It goes something like this:
Compute every possible future that doesn’t contradict something in the fixed past, including loops.
Whenever you find a paradox, delete that timeline.
Repeat.
That would generate a story we could read, no problem. It wouldn’t generate anyone who actually experiences paradoxes, either; to the degree those actually exist, they never get out of the subatomic level. It’s not clear to me whether or not this results in a universe that can usefully be experienced, though, or (more to the point) whether your future experiences match up with the type of experiences you remember.
I think you’re inappropriately anthropomorphizing the universe.
Given that this universe settled on an explicit message about not messing with time, and given how much magic apparently involves naive mental entities, it seems like anthropomorphizing the laws of physics is a much more useful heuristic in the HP universe than it is in ours.
I was thinking about how I’d implement HPMoR-style time-travel in a turing machine, actually.
It goes something like this:
Compute every possible future that doesn’t contradict something in the fixed past, including loops.
Whenever you find a paradox, delete that timeline.
Repeat.
That would generate a story we could read, no problem. It wouldn’t generate anyone who actually experiences paradoxes, either; to the degree those actually exist, they never get out of the subatomic level. It’s not clear to me whether or not this results in a universe that can usefully be experienced, though, or (more to the point) whether your future experiences match up with the type of experiences you remember.
..kind of odd.