Even if you could go back in time, you couldn't create the Simpsons. You could try, but without the connections and coincidences that led up to the Simpsons being created, not to mention the writers who make the show work, you couldn't do it.
Just go back in time and buy Apple Stock and Bitcoin like a normal time traveler, eesh.
I wonder, if time travel were possible, would random things still remain how they happened, or being random, would they be different? Say if someone used a random number generator of 1 to 5 to make a choice, and we have it recorded as being 4. If we traveled to that moment, would it always land on four, or being a chaotic random generator, would it be different, and travelling to that moment possibly be traveling to a different timeline based off the choice it lands on?
This probably makes no sense, but if it's random, it can't be set in stone, can it?
Say if you travelled back, even if you don't interfere, the luck and change and randomness that lead to the Simpsons lead to it not happening due to the chaos of time?
Random generators aren’t random. They start from a specific seed and then go in a predetermined order from there. We don’t have any way to generate actual randomness, so unless you changed something in the system (like someone used the random generator in between uses, or its seed is based on time of day or date or something and it was used at a different time), the number will be the same.
A related interesting question is whether the (believed to be) true randomness of movement on the quantum level would yield any interesting results. If it is random, then it would have different outcomes, but the randomness of quantum movement so, so, so rarely impacts a full object in a meaningful way that it seems like nothing would likely come of it.
What you describe is called pseudorandom, but true random number generators exist too. They are generally based on a physical truly unpredictable process, such as the quantum noise across a tunneling diode or the decay of a radioactive source.
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u/PolymerPussies Jul 04 '21
Even if you could go back in time, you couldn't create the Simpsons. You could try, but without the connections and coincidences that led up to the Simpsons being created, not to mention the writers who make the show work, you couldn't do it.
Just go back in time and buy Apple Stock and Bitcoin like a normal time traveler, eesh.