But even without multiple timelines, time travel could still exist. Some physicist proved how it would work, I forget his name but here’s what he said….the following is a thought experiment but he said the same principle applies in any situation.

Suppose you have pool table. There’s a wormhole on it. Roll a ball into the wormhole, and it will curve around and come out three seconds in the past.

Aim the ball right, and it will come out and knock itself off its path, so it never enters the wormhole in the first place. Paradox! If it never enters the wormhole, it can’t knock itself off the path, so it does enter the wormhole, so it does knock itself away….

What actually happens, he said, is that the ball comes out of the wormhole on a slightly altered trajectory, so that instead of striking its earlier self a solid blow, it strikes it only a glancing blow, allowing it to enter the wormhole.

And why does it come out with this altered path, despite your careful aim? Because it was hit a glancing blow…

To put it simply: in purely theoretical terms, different time lines do exist. They have no bearing on each other, and are more or less irrelevant to you. It is not possible to travel between them, which is why they don’t matter, but they do exist, in theory.

I may not have explained this perfectly, if you’re bored there is video that explains it better with visual aids. Look up “How to Imagine the Tenth Dimension” on youtube.

Try looking at how many of these vulnerabilities were exploited or exploitable and what the length of patch cycle was. Then you’d have some data.

Oh, and one more word: Cornficker.