Time travel novel: how do I prevent my protagonists from searching for Jesus?

Hi!

I'm currently writing a story about time travel, but somehow I don't want my protagonists to act on the urge to, for example, search for Jesus. Is there any way I can make that impossible, in a logical way, so they can't travel back in time?

So it is absolutely not possible to travel that far back in time.

But it should make sense.

Thanks in advance haha

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Seraphiel0
1 year ago

The simplest possibility would be if your characters simply have no interest in Jesus from religion – either because their opinion on Jesus is already firmly formed (Jews, Muslims) or because Jesus is completely irrelevant to them (Buddhists, Shintoists, Atheists…)

But, fair, you leave other gaps. A Buddhist could visit Buddha, a Muslim Muhammad, etc.

Therefore, some other suggestions:

  • The time machine has a limit for what data you can enter. Perhaps it is not possible to set a year that has a zero as a thousand.
  • Perhaps the time machine needs more energy depending on the time it travels through, and from a certain point in time it is just so much that it is not to be done.
  • Perhaps the time machine is very inaccurate at long intervals, and as a result you can no longer control where and when it lands.
  • Perhaps the time machine has installed an artefact that it uses as a kind of ‘anchorage’, and therefore it is impossible to travel further with the time machine than until the production of this artefact.
  • There is a limit for how often a person can travel with the time machine, or how often the time machine can be moved. What else happens, I’ll give you the creativity. And these trips should be cancelled for things that are really essential.
  • You just let it go, don’t exclude it theoretically – it just doesn’t happen. Or you even pull it through, but then of course you should be aware that your book has a pretty clear religious message that you may not want.
DerJens292
1 year ago

Either the time travel machine can only travel in time, but not in other places. Let the machine be so big or so secret that it is not liked to be transported to other places, such as Nazareth.

Or you’ll let them go there, and they’ll be mistaken there, and they’ll go back as soon as possible.

MrSmartDonkey
1 year ago

there was a tv show called “7days”… you can lay down every shice.

but they have something important to do.

if this should be based on continuation – let them visit him would be funny.

MrSmartDonkey
1 year ago
Reply to  venusfliegen99

Give people something to do! otherwise let them do it.

guitschee
1 year ago

Depending on the way the trip is, you could say: the more someone returns, the more physically strenuous it becomes….

guitschee
1 year ago
Reply to  venusfliegen99

At some point, it hurts too bad to go back, or just kills you.

In a time travel history I had tried, the protagonists simply did not have the choice in which time they were coming:-D. That would be another way. – However, in which a protagonist “Jesus” was then:-D.

safur
1 year ago

You have another religion that only begins in the future.