Ruby
Auror
I'm writing a Fantasy in which several of my main characters are time travellers. It's turning out to be a lot more complicated than I'd expected.
I thought I could simplify things and make a rule that when characters time travel, they disappear. They reappear only when and if they return ( as opposed to dividing into two people, one who time travels, the other who stays and continues their normal existence).
I thought I had it sorted but now I think there would still be a paradox, because if they return to the moment they left, then they won't have disappeared and so the plot regarding what happened when they disappeared will no longer exist, as they didn't disappear. Although they did, but only they know about it.
So, is it possible to write about Time Travel without making paradoxes?
I thought I could simplify things and make a rule that when characters time travel, they disappear. They reappear only when and if they return ( as opposed to dividing into two people, one who time travels, the other who stays and continues their normal existence).
I thought I had it sorted but now I think there would still be a paradox, because if they return to the moment they left, then they won't have disappeared and so the plot regarding what happened when they disappeared will no longer exist, as they didn't disappear. Although they did, but only they know about it.
So, is it possible to write about Time Travel without making paradoxes?