Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Well, it depends on your theory of time travel. Some say that time traveling leaves "shadows" of its existence. Therefore, whether or not Ben had any inclination to time travel in the revised timeline, the time traveling would already have happened.

And then there's also the theory of a fixed timeline, in which all effects of time travel have already been implemented, and there's no way to change anything.

Those are good theories as well. Hmm, the idea in Timeline sounds interesting. But based on thought experiments in our reality so far, certain events simply cannot be changed. For instance the classic example of the grandfather. Let's say you for some strange reason go to the past to kill your grandfather. So you kill him. He dies. Well, since he dies, your exact parents would never exist. So if they don't exist, you cease to exist, so you can't go back and kill him, therefore you exist. I will agree that some events might still be able to be changed without this parodox occuring, but it doesn't seem likely to me. But I digress, because I don't want this to derail into a discussion on time travel. We'll save that until the silly topic started by JennyS1138 has fizzled out...