"Uh - wow. Okay. Revive the dead, but still need stitches? Yup - I'm as confused as you and I come from somewhere we still use stitches, but can't bring back the dead." If they could, he's got a few people he'd like to have back, thanks.
He presses his lips together, thinking. "Well, we're getting a little..." lot... "out of my level on the theoretical physics, but if you're only giving names and not details about the names, you're probably okay. Like, if someone went back and told, like, FDR that this jerk, Hitler, was gonna be a real problem some day, maybe FDR makes a couple different decisions when that names pops up - things he maybe waited on in the existing timeline. And it makes some little changes and things are still fine. That's probably okay. But if someone runs into FDR's office in 1935 and says 'look, there's this guy coming who is going to ruin everything, you need to send someone to take him out now' and someone goes to kill Hitler - that could make a BIG mess in the timeline and make things way worse." McCoy's just gonna have to get used to the rambling. It's a thing.
"Oh! Stephen King wrote a book kinda about this. 11.22.63 about the Kennedy assassination. The main character goes through this weird time blip thing back to like 1960 and decides to wait out the three years until the assassination to see if he can stop it. The problem is, as he gets closer to the actual date and he starts trying to change things, the timeline starts to get really cranky and throws things in the way to make his attempts harder. So, like little stuff, the timeline shrugs off, but big things, it starts putting up roadblocks because changing big stuff can hurt the timeline. Like - Chaos Theory gone wild." He doesn't even realize he does this sometimes. He just gets started and it keeps going.
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He presses his lips together, thinking. "Well, we're getting a little..." lot... "out of my level on the theoretical physics, but if you're only giving names and not details about the names, you're probably okay. Like, if someone went back and told, like, FDR that this jerk, Hitler, was gonna be a real problem some day, maybe FDR makes a couple different decisions when that names pops up - things he maybe waited on in the existing timeline. And it makes some little changes and things are still fine. That's probably okay. But if someone runs into FDR's office in 1935 and says 'look, there's this guy coming who is going to ruin everything, you need to send someone to take him out now' and someone goes to kill Hitler - that could make a BIG mess in the timeline and make things way worse." McCoy's just gonna have to get used to the rambling. It's a thing.
"Oh! Stephen King wrote a book kinda about this. 11.22.63 about the Kennedy assassination. The main character goes through this weird time blip thing back to like 1960 and decides to wait out the three years until the assassination to see if he can stop it. The problem is, as he gets closer to the actual date and he starts trying to change things, the timeline starts to get really cranky and throws things in the way to make his attempts harder. So, like little stuff, the timeline shrugs off, but big things, it starts putting up roadblocks because changing big stuff can hurt the timeline. Like - Chaos Theory gone wild." He doesn't even realize he does this sometimes. He just gets started and it keeps going.