Some ideas are:
- You branch off into another timeline and your actions make no difference to the previous timeline
- You’ve already taken said actions but just didn’t know about it so nothing changes
- Actions taken can have an effect (so you could suddenly erase yourself if you killed your parents)
- Only “nexus” or fixed events really matter, the timeline will sort itself out for minor changes
- something else entirely
If that model results in wormholes randomly opening up here and there, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to violate our current observations. What if the probability of a wormhole event is incredibly unlikely. You know, like a tennis ball tunneling through a solid wall sort of unlikely. Even if the probability is a lot higher, those wormholes could open up anywhere in the universe, which just so happens to be incredibly vast. Or what if the wormholes are absolutely tiny, and last only a nanosecond? There are lots of ways it could still be compatible with observations.