Making The Past, The Past. Keyword: *Making*
Nothing a time traveller does changes anything in the block. Instead, what the traveller does at any time makes that time, and later times, the way they are.
That means that we know that some things we attempt to do in the past, fail. We know that Hitler rose to power in the 1930s, so we know that if our time travelling future selves try to prevent this from happening, they fail.
But that doesn't show that our time traveling selves don't succeed in doing lots of things in the past. For all we know, the reason the past is the way it is, is in part due to the presence of time travelers.
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The Block Universe Theory, Where Time Travel Is Possible But Time Passing Is An Illusion
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Would you time-travel just to make things as they are, if you could not change things as they are? Not really a question.
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