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[allosaurus]

Alright, so let me pretty much copy-paste the discussion I already had going with someone:

Me:
Alright, let's assume that all moments in time are occurring over and over again. So time can easily correct itself should someone mess with something. Let's forget the ideas about a bunch of alternate happenings and the future and such being stored, and just focus on past and present.

Now, if I went back in time maybe five years and sent an email to someone I know in the time frame I was previously in, would they receive it immediately, dated with the time frame I sent it from?

The nature of the internet is such that anything added there, stays there (unless there's some massive data purge or something). So it sort of makes sense to me... but is that really what would happen?

Other:
There are infinite versions of "reality" all in a different dimension. For each little second you could do a trillion different things. And that is one moment, and one person. And anything would be a change, even stepping a millimeter off from where you were.

Me:
But what if the individual moments are all 'stored' in one line, so if I go back in time to do something, another me-as-I-am continues on in my life, and going forward would destroy the extra me-as-I-am and bring it just back to me-as-I-am-now.... in essence, exactly how it was before? (With or without memories that I ever even went back in time)

What do you guys, as generally different kinds of people from the other forum, think about the subject? 

Aimless discussion in 3.... 2.... 1....


edit: A little more notable discussion....
Other2:
I think that it would be sent to past-her, and that it would change your present-self's world slightly, so when you go back to the present, something'll be different (perhaps unnoticeable). I prescribe to the 'Back to the Future' sort of outlook

Me:
What if past-her doesn't use the email? What if past-her doesn't open the email 'yet,' but she-as-she-is-now does?

..... Oh.

That would complicate things, actually.

Because it wouldn't make sense for her to never open the email for five years-- but in the event she-as-she-is-now opens it first and knows what's in it, what happens when past-her opens it....?

Oi...

[Crewella]

My head hurts ...........     

[Lottibell]

Scratches head...... Well, are these moments in time occurring over and over again happening simultaneously to 'our reality' accessible via some sort of wormhole, or do you envisage these events replaying in our past, a sort of time loop or folds in time? Still scratching head......the great thing about such subjects is that ( thus far) their answer can only be conjecture and so we are quite free to float outlandish ideas. I rather like to perceive myself as the only me in any dimension and at any time.the universe simply isn't big enough for two of me!