• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    What about stories about time travel that ultimately form a closed loop? There’s one that has people moving forwards and backwards through time, yet forms a closed loop at the end: >!Dark!<

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      6 hours ago

      If they’re using time travel to create a causality loop, that’s different than a time loop.

      Time loops usually reset causality, accept for those actually experiencing the loop iterations.

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        6 hours ago

        I’m not sure that it can be clearly delineated as a time loop or a causality loop, it’s honestly a mix of both - though you’d probably call it a causality loop, as each “instance of a person” only experiences the loop once.