Time Traveling Tuesdays: Paradoxes and Pitfalls

Warning: Time Traveling can be Hazardous to Your Sanity

On this installment of Time Traveling Tuesdays, we're diving headfirst into the treacherous waters of temporal paradoxes and the pitfalls that await the unwary time traveler.

Paradoxes 101

• The Grandfather Clause: If you go back in time and kill your grandfather before he has kids, then you were never born. But if you were never born, then who killed your grandfather? Mind. Exploded.
• The Ripple Effect: Changing one event in the past creates a ripple effect throughout time, potentially altering the course of history and creating a reality where the Roman Empire never fell. Or did it?
• The Predestination Paradox: If you go back in time and cause an event that was always going to happen anyway, then was it really a paradox, or was it just a predestined inevitability?

More Paradoxes and Pitfalls

• The Bootstrap Paradox: A message sent back in time that creates a paradox by referencing itself. Because, you know, that's not a paradox at all.
• The Novikov Paradox: A paradox that states any event that occurs through time travel must be caused by something outside of the timeline, not by anything within it. Because, you know, that's not a paradox at all either.
• The Time Traveler's Dilemma: The ultimate paradox: to be or not to be, that is the question.