Issue with Time Travelling (Part One)

A team in my cohort created a game called 'Paradox'. Yes, as you might have guessed, the issue on hand here is...Time. In their game, the protagonist has the power to control time.

So it got me thinking. If you could control time, what would happen? What are the repercussions? So I've kinda come up with several scenarios.

Firstly. Duplicates. If you had the ability to go back in time... Wouldn't there be duplicates of yourself? Think about say you were standing under a tree on Monday. Fews days went by and on Friday, you had the ability to rip the fabric of time and space and go back to the past. You decided to travel back to Monday. Would you see yourself standing under the tree you stood under four days before you travelled back in time? Or would you disappear and find that that body which stood under the tree no longer stood under the tree and was in fact you? If so, doesn't it mean that you never stood under the tree, instead on Monday, you looked back at the tree looking for yourself because of your time travelling exploits, you then for some reason in the past succumb to looking at the direction of the tree not knowing why, but the you of the future who travelled back in time knew, the reason for looking at the direction of the tree. Then again, if you never knew why you looked back at the tree, would you ever know the reason why? Maybe, could there be a rewinding situation, where, travelling back in time makes you forget and then due to your ignorance of your past time travelling exploits, which will occur in the future, does it mean that you're stuck in this infinite loop of travelling back in time every Friday to get back to Monday seeing a tree for no particular reason at all? Geddit? I don't know... Kinda confusing.

Secondly. Say you could travel back in time and you didn't like what you did in the present and went back in time to change things around...then obviously, it never happened, the thing you deemed must be changed. But the question is, would you then know the consequences of what you might have done? Say for example, you stole a watch and you get chased by the police and say that watch had national significance and everyone is after your head, and the watch. Now, if you get caught and tortured and then found that you had the ability to go back in time, and you did, and you correct your mistake and didn't steal the watch...you would then be aware of the consequences which followed if you did steal the watch? Ok, try this then...

Someone tells you a secret and you go back in time and decide to not hear that secret. But the question is...you already know the secret and does travelling back in time make you forget that secret or does it make you carry the secret with you...That's if time travelling has no side effects of the individual or duplication effects on the body which travelled time. Cos, technically, you don't know what is going to happen, in the perpetual motion of time...but if you could reverse the motion, from a future perspective, and bring it forward again with different motives...would you know what happened? Or would it have happened? Or would someone, like yourself who travelled through time, know what would have happened?

I'm racking my brain off just trying to find the right words to put... And I doubt you guys understand this... Seesh

(Part 2)

So let's say I did manage to time travel, and there are duplicates... It means that me from the future who came to past would carry information about the future, seeing as I was from that time. But technically, if duplicates do exist due to time travelling, it would mean that I do know something, yet I don't. Geddit? Lemme rephrase. If me from the future who went back in time is A, and that me of the past who gets visited by me of the future is B... Work with me on this one... So, A knows something but B doesn't. Technically therefore do know yet I don't, given that moment or period of time. Because, both A and B are the same person, the same body, so to speak, but they are different in physical body.

Also, if B did something to injure himself, would A get affected? Or would travelling back in time create some kinda safety haven-like devise, metaphysically, that would prevent them from experiencing, or having experienced the injury? Cos, A would be in the same time zone as B and eventhough A is from the future, he went back to the past and they are two different physical bodies...

Maybe, I needa think this through..Till then, I guess, the me of the past will travel to the future and meet you in the present...ish