Falsifying history is good business

Chapter 256 The Butterfly Effect with Time as a Variable

"Has this conjecture been verified?" Lin You questioned, "If the 'unknown' event can only happen after the original main story is over, then what about Dumbledore and Constantine? Their stories are far from over."

Not to mention that Constantine's comics were serialized until the second decade of the 1998st century, and the timeline was updated; Dumbledore's story would not end until - the old wizard met Harry in spirit state a year after he was killed.

God replied: "Their story is indeed not over yet, but they are not the leaders of the 'unknown' incident. Think about it, why did these two people get involved in this incident? Who is the real leader and source?"

"Four demons who accidentally escaped from hell, and then O'Dimm..." Lin You thought for a moment, and suddenly realized it without God's prompting.

Going back to the source, there are two main driving forces behind this "unknown" event; one is that Dantalion and Simonelli tried to use the power of the Spear of Longinus to keep their true bodies in the world, and the other is that O'Dimm deliberately harmed Constantine in order to seek a soul contract when the other party was in danger.

Speaking of these two groups of demons separately, the main storyline has ended since King Solomon died and ended his contract with the 72 demon gods. As for O'Dimm, due to the special "fusion" method of the demon hunter world, there is no so-called main storyline in the big world.

From this point of view, they all meet God's conjecture about the prerequisites of "unknown" events.

Going further, in addition to the original force, the other two important figures who promoted the development of the "unknown" are Helena Shaw and Gellert Grindelwald.

Needless to say, Helena's main storyline ended with the end of the "Indiana Jones" series; Dr. Indiana Jones is now lying in a hospital bed receiving hospice care.

The same is true of Gellert Grindelwald. The story of the first Dark Lord ended as early as 1945 when he lost the duel; in the era of Harry Potter, the name Grindelwald only appeared sporadically in people's conversations about history.

Even when Grindelwald died in the end, he did not appear directly, but was "seen" by Harry Potter in Voldemort's dream through shared memories.

It can be inferred from this that the process of Constantine and Dumbledore's intervention in the incident was full of passivity.

"This is also the most interesting part of the whole thing," God hypothesized with interest, "Since those whose main story has ended will have an impact on those who are still in the story, does that mean that 'unknown' events will also have an impact on 'established' events?"

"I think it will happen. There is a special term in the real dimension, called the butterfly effect." Lin You responded casually, "Maybe this is the next direction of observation?"

God smiled calmly: "Although there is a term called butterfly effect in the real dimension, it is only a conjecture, a theory. It does not have an accurate measurement standard, and even a rough estimate cannot be made."

"Can you?"

"Of course I can't either. Knowledge that the real dimension doesn't know, the virtual dimension certainly doesn't know either." God said with a sigh, "I once tried to use a stupid method to deduce how large a variable must be to absolutely trigger the butterfly effect."

"Derivation? Are you trying to perfect the theory of the butterfly effect?"

"It's not a theory, but a mathematical model; a mathematical model that uses time as a simple variable. I find the result very interesting." "An interesting model?" Lin You was interested. "Can you explain it in detail?"

"It's actually just a very simple model. You write online novels in the real dimension, so you should know that most online novels start with time travel."

"Of course, I can't say all of it, but it's almost the whole story."

"That's it." God said calmly, "There is a classic grandmother paradox in time travel; if a person goes back in time and kills his grandmother, will he disappear? My model is based on the further extension of the grandmother paradox."

Lin You asked curiously, "The extension you are talking about, is it an extension in time, or an extension in terms of characters and space?"

"Both." God raised his hands and made a length-measuring motion. "My model raises a question: If killing a grandmother would cause a person to disappear, how far back in time would a person have to travel to in order to arbitrarily change a fact and cause himself to disappear?"

Lin You said flatly: "That's impossible! Unless you go back tens of millions of years and kill the Homo erectus, the legendary source of all human blood. But that is killing a designated target, not 'arbitrarily' changing a fact."

"You are wrong." God smiled and denied Lin You's answer, and asked him another question; "Do you know how many blood ancestors you have in your body in the real dimension - I mean direct ancestors?"

"Then you have to send me back first so that I can have a chance to check the family tree." Lin You sneered, looking quite lonely.

"That's not something you can tell by just looking through the family tree." God smiled disapprovingly, "A person's ancestors are not just a single line of father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. Even adding mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother is not enough. Your grandfather also has a grandfather and grandmother, and your grandmother also has a grandfather and grandmother. Aren't these people all ancestors who provided you with blood?"

Lin You was slightly stunned: "According to this calculation, everyone's bloodline tracing is indeed two very large lines. But what do you want to explain by mentioning this?"

God smiled and held up two fingers: "In your parents' generation, there were two people; in your grandparents' generation, there were four people; going up one generation, theoretically, there are eight direct ancestors; and so on, if you calculate with 30 years as a generation, how many direct ancestors did you have a thousand years ago?"

"If we don't consider other factors and only calculate the theoretical maximum value..." Lin You said a number woodenly, "2 to the power of thirty-three."

"Yes, two to the power of thirty-three. Your ancestors thirty-three generations ago would be more than eight billion."

God sighed with emotion: "Although the actual situation is not as huge as the theoretical number, it is definitely not too small. Considering the population size in ancient times, if you travel back a thousand years ago, no matter how small a historical fact is changed, it will most likely affect one of your ancestors, and then affect your normal birth a thousand years later."

“So, your research result is that those historical time-travel novels, unless they are about parallel universes, are pure nonsense as long as they talk about the butterfly effect?” Lin You sneered, “The problem is, online readers don’t need you to remind them of this.”

God himself laughed: "Yes, online readers don't need to consider this. But when observing the influence of the 'unknown', I have to take it into consideration."

(End of this chapter)