July 5
Most time loops, then deal with information. Information isn’t like matter. It doesn’t age, and in its purest state– that is, in someone’s head or on a hard copy– it doesn’t decay. A letter that takes the slow path to the future, comes back to the past, and is rewritten verbatim by the sender on a clean sheet of paper that will eventually be what’s sent to the past is a perfect time loop. You don’t even need a pen and paper to do this.
If you set it up with enough go-betweens, you can give your past self information that your future self knows, but you don’t. The problem is that this works exactly like the old game of ‘telephone’. The information gets distorted, subtly, with each transfer. In the end, the loop has the potential to decay and collapse, creating a paradox. In some cases this is because many people get it wrong, but in other cases this is because one person– the Delta– chooses to make it wrong.
There’s no guarantees. Free will trumps everything. That’s why you have to be so careful.
I’m the Delta right now, the change. I could scribble out the note, could write something different, could… hell. I have no idea what I’m doing. I’m just going to do this and see what happens.
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