was drowned before he made his decision. Booker's death, on the other hand is a variable in the sense that he gets to live because no paradox was created, even though he technically died. It doesn't matter if Booker continues to live, because it already happened ("dies, died, will die). Once all possibilites of Comstock's "birth" are gone, that's it. Comstock's death - or technically, his lack of birth - is a constant because he is eliminated. Booker's death is not a variable, since that would mean in another universe he does not die.
His death is a variable, whereas his lack of decision (sorry for the incredibly choppy wording there) becomes a constant. His death is independent from every other Booker in every other universe the only thing that has changed is that a decision is never made. No choice is made, no new universes are created.īooker's death does not create a paradox because it does not affect anything else. When he is killed, he is still in the process of deciding. He does not choose to reject the baptism, and he does not choose to accept it. So, to eliminate Comstock, Elizabeth drowns Booker before the choice is made. We all know that Booker became Comstock because in one universe he chose to accept the baptism. Why? Because universes are created from choices. The only thing that matters is that a choice is never made. We know this because the Booker that Elizabeth drowns is not 16-year-old Booker it is the Booker that we have been playing as for the entire game. The only importance time has on the final scene is that Elizabeth had to take Booker back to the time before he finalized his decision on the matter of baptism. Now, how does this affect the ending and the post-credits scene? Because the ending scene of Booker's death has absolutely nothing to do with time. I know, it's confusing, but it does make a sort of sense. When time is an "ocean", there is no past, present, or future, so there is nothing to affect. This is because when time is linear, events that happen in the past affect and determine what happens in the future. One event does not affect another - at least, not in such a way that it could create a paradox.Ĭlearly Elizabeth can affect other universes, but a paradox simply cannot be created because in order for a paradox to exist, time must be linear. What this means is that everything that ever happened and will happen happens in a separate universe, totally independent from anything else that has ever happened or will happen. Here is what the events of Bioshock Infinite look like as an "ocean". The thing is, as Lutece said, time is not a "river', it is an "ocean". This goes on for an infinite number of times. Booker lives, Anna is born, Elizabeth kills Booker. Booker dies, Anna is never born, Elizabeth doesn't kill Booker. Here's what the major events of Bioshock Infinite (and the ones that preceded it) would look like if time were linear As I wrote in the image, a paradox is created when Elizabeth drowns Booker. Paradoxes can only occur when time is a "river", meaning linear. So, what does this have to do with paradoxes? Everything that is happening, has happened, and will ever happen, is happening right now, but in a different universe - an infinite amount of universes, for that matter. That is the meaning behind " lives, lived, will live" and " dies, died, will die". What it means is that time is not linear everything happens all at once. That is easily one of the most important statements in the game. Why try to bring in a tide that will only again go out? My brother says we must undo what we have done. Our contraption shows us the girl is the flame that shall ignite the world. This is explained, albeit somewhat vaguely, in one Rosalind Lutece's voxophones: I've come up with a theory that could explain the ending a little better: within the Bioshock world/universe/whatever you want to call it, paradoxes are impossible. Taken from the Wikipedia page for Temporal Paradox Thus each possibility seems to imply its own negation - a type of logical paradox. However, if he goes back in time and does something that would prevent the time travel, he will not go back in time. If he does not go back in time, he does not do anything that would prevent his traveling to the past, so time travel would be possible for him. A time traveler goes to the past, and does something that would prevent him from time travel in the first place. Temporal paradox (also known as time paradox and time travel paradox) is a theoretical paradoxical situation that happens because of time travel.
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