Prez wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 11:54:
Assassinating Hitler would only have meant new leadership for the Nazis; the war just wouldn't have suddenly ended.

This kind of thought experiment has always held a bit of fascination for me. In a book I mentioned previously "Replay", you follow a man who dies of a heart attack at 43, but then wakes up 25 years in the past, as himself. He wakes up in his freshman college dorm room. And everything seems to just a repeat, except for the fact he remembers the previous run through. Then at 43, he dies again -- and wakes up 18, at college. His replays include the early 1960s. In one of them he writes an anonymous letter to the FBI claiming to be Oswald and tells them he is going to assassinate the President. Oswald is arrested. But someone he has never heard of does the assassination in the same way he remembers Oswald doing it.

Now obviously he does make minor changes. He makes bets and makes money he never did previously. But it raises an interesting questions, is there a flow to time which would cause most major events to happen even if there was interference. Of course, it is all sci-fi hocus pocus but it is an interesting thought experiment.