Time Traveler's Wife II

Dear wife people,

I made more progress on this book. I thought about the concept of time travel, narrarative style, which is the style that Ms. Niffenegger as well as many other authors have used to make sense of the incomprehensible time travel. Narrarative style is the simplest and also the most confusing of ways to tell about time travel in a story or a movie. It happens like this, when a character realizes something in the present and then goes back in time to fix this something, or just realizes something that he would later change at all. But it really doesn't make sense! There's no way his future self would be unaware of it to begin with if he changed his past self. He'd know exactly what was happening all the time, don't you think?

Another perplexing thing about time travel is the duplication of matter and energy in the vessel (in this case, the vessel is our hero.) Isn't it more of a paradox than time travel to think that a person could go back in time and encounter themselves? Yes, I think so, because that would mean our traveler duplicated himself. Think about it. There is only a certain amount of matter in the world. This amount of matter can only exist in one place at one time, i.e. our hero's body. Though we've studied particles traveling close to light speed and discovered that they experience time faster, or manipulate the time around them by traveling so fast. And ok, so they can do this. Perhaps I will jump into a wormhole and emerge 2 years earlier. Would the wormhole, in the process of transporting me through the fabric of spacetime, duplicate my matter (the matter in my body)? No.

Time travel, to me, would have to have a way of redistributing the matter. Perhaps sucking the matter of the past into oblivion with the addition of the traveling matter? There are many mysteries of space that we can only guess at.

This is not off topic! It's just on the topic of time travel itself rather than the mundane and sluggish romance part of the novel.

I ask you fellow readers! What is your time travel philosophy? Do you agree with Ms. Niffenegger's theory?