Sort of similar to the Great Filter theory, but applied to time travel technology.

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    3 months ago

    In that case time travel would be meaningless regardless, impossible to prove, and doesn’t matter.

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      3 months ago

      Dumbledore disagrees. The type of timetravel that happens in HP: Prisoner of Azkaban is self-consistent. Same as with Rick’s timetravel in the snake episode of Rick & Morty (specifically excluding the snake time travel, which is an example of non-consistency, leading to endless paradoxes).

      Now ofc having a timeturner and/or a timemachine would be the impossible part there, but again, CTC’s are technically allowed by GR.