Time Travel and Going Back to Prevent a Death
I really, really need Elliot to talk to Kat and explain to her that she didn't originally cause her father's death. I know that a lot of people won't agree with me. I am going to copy, some of the comments I have made regarding this. I don't want Alice and Kat to deal with this guilt and I don't want Jacob and Del to blame Kat and Alice for Colton's death. When Alice and Kat went back to prevent Colton's death, the universe just found a new way for him to die.
Colton didn't die the same way the first time he died. Kat went back to change things and to prevent Elliot's death and Alice followed her. And they did change events but he still died. In this cyclic and not multiverse type of time travel, that's the way it works. Colton dying couldn't be changed so the universe still found a way for him to die.
Elliot didn't know about the 2 women who were seen leaving the accident until this go round. After Kat returned, Colton read it in a newspaper article that he owned that he had already read.
It's what happens in TT shows that have one timeline that doesn't split into multiverses when changes happen. Instead there are slight butterfly effects. And deaths can't be undone in this version of TT, Novikov Self-Consistency Principle, which Elliot postulates is happening here.
- Novikov Self-Consistency Principle: This theory suggests that any action taken by a time traveler to prevent a death would lead to events that ensure the death still happens, preserving the consistency of history. Essentially, the universe would correct any attempts to change the past.
- Many-Worlds Interpretation: According to this theory, if a time traveler goes back and prevents a death, they create a parallel universe or alternate timeline. In the original timeline, the death still occurs, but in the new one, it doesn't.
- Retro-Causality: Some theories propose that the past is unchangeable. Any attempts to alter events will either be futile or lead to the same outcome, meaning that preventing a death is impossible.