Using the bracelet/suit only afford someone to travel back in time, in their CURRENT timeline, it has no function to jump to another dimension/timeline.
When you jump back in time you jump from a physical location (your backyard say) and you jump from a specific time (May 14, 2019 at 6:30 pm local time).
You jump backwards into your own history BUT at that moment a new timeline is created. The old timeline still exists because without it you would not have been able to get to your backyard at 6:30pm local time on May 14th to jump back in the first place.
The quantum suit then lets you go back to where and when you jumped from (in this case your backyard at 6:30pm local time).
The only problem with the film is that Cap should have come back through the gate but in this case the dramatic affect of his appearing on the bench won out. Just like in the post credit scene for Captain Marvel, it shows her meeting Black Widow, Cap and War Machine in the Avengers base but in the film it does not have this scene. For dramatic affect they cut this scene from the film so we would first see her as she approached Tony in the ship.
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gantz8596 (205)
6 years ago
The suit is similar to ant-man suit, it allows them to shrink to quantum size, the bracelet is the one that guides them so they can traverse the timeline safely. Or at least that's how I understand it.
With the bracelet, they can go back in time (in their timeline), but if after that they go forward in time, they only go forward on that timeline, not their original timeline. To be able to return to their timeline, they need some kind of tether, which is what the machine is. Which is why when Thanos copy the bracelet technology, they can only come to the main timeline through the machine (don't ask me how he manages to shrink that mothership, another loophole).
Without any kind of tether, the bracelet wouldn't be able to know where to jump to get back to their original timeline.
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