That's absolutely true, and in our own lives we jump back and forth in time all the time as we remember things, replay them in our heads, imagine the future, and so on (okay, so imagining the future is not quite the same as literally jumping into the future--but practically. Especially as, given that the future depends on the past, any future you jumped into in a literal sense would only be a potential one . . . though I guess lots of literature is based on the notion of a particular future being the ineluctable result of *any* choice you make, and especially of choices made trying to avoid that future). <--hmm, digression.
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That's absolutely true, and in our own lives we jump back and forth in time all the time as we remember things, replay them in our heads, imagine the future, and so on (okay, so imagining the future is not quite the same as literally jumping into the future--but practically. Especially as, given that the future depends on the past, any future you jumped into in a literal sense would only be a potential one . . . though I guess lots of literature is based on the notion of a particular future being the ineluctable result of *any* choice you make, and especially of choices made trying to avoid that future). <--hmm, digression.
All right; off to look up subterficial.