Mandela Effects could bypass causal loops created by FTL travel
We all know if you could travel FTL then you can break causality, maybe MEs allow travelers to go FTL and preserve causality.
If you transmit a question at FTL and I receive the message at a specific trajectory and then travel to you at FTL I can't answer your question because then it would never be asked in the first place and I never would have traveled to answer it (so you again would ask it creating the causal loop), but, I can tie your shoe (as long as the question wasn't related to the tying of the shoe in this scenario).
Imagine. My first thought is to think of humans doing this in some sort of war over resources and wealth, but if there are travelers who can access FTL travel, what would they be interested in on Earth for?
Maybe they are seeing events and able to send a signal back and bounce it hard enough that it transmits from Earth at FTL and then respond back, changing enough to influence things in ways that don't create an outright causal loop.
I wonder how this would effect certain people though. Has anyone ever spoken to the original designer of the FotL logo for example and asked them how they experience the ME? Maybe that isn't actually as interesting as I'm thinking it could be. Perhaps it's just relative and from his perspective it could be different.
Posted Feb 25, 2026, 5:34 AM UTC