Not necessarily, no. [ Jim presses his lips, trying to figure out how to explain in a way she'll understand. ] That's... if you think from a linear perspective, then sure, it'd be weird. But thing is, time's not linear, and it's not a constant stream. Some people even argue that time only exists because you perceive it, actually— that's neither here nor there, though. Point is, you can be taken from a certain point in your timeline, be gone for days, months or years, then be put back as if nothing had changed. Especially if we're talking multidimensional traveling, that seems even more possible than doing it within the same universe.

[ Honestly, he's not even sure if that'll make sense to her or if she'll just think he's some guy with crazy beliefs. But he does have some very personal experience with time travel, so he adds, for whatever may be worth. ]

I have this friend of mine, actually... a much older version of him traveled back to the past, to around the time I was born. So time travel might be involved in this too, in some way.