Talk:Alternate Timeline Creation/@comment-9597460-20130518000910

When you change the past, are you changing your own past and present, or causing the genesis of a new timeline that branches off from the original?

If the former, this could be called History Manipulation or Timeline Transformation.

If the latter, then you're not really changing anything, you're transposing yourself into a custom-pruned timeline. Which leads to the question of what happens to "you" in the original timeline. Do you branch off into two versions, or just disappear from that reality?

The one I'd want is the one where you really do change the past, and all events in your original timeline kind of "reshuffle" in order to create the new present.