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Welcome to the Time Paradox Edition of Quantum Uncertainty!
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Novikov Theorem: A Time-Traveler's Guide to Not Getting Killed

In the infinite expanse of parallel universes, there exists a theorem that defies the laws of time travel: the Novikov Theorem. Don't worry, it's not as complicated as it sounds! Essentially, it states that if you try to go back in time, you'll end up in a universe where the timestream has been, well... stream-rewritten.

Think of it this way: you're at a restaurant, trying to order a nice plate of quantum-entangled nachos. But the waiter, in an infinite loop of temporal recursion, keeps taking your order back and forth between universes. You try to leave, but you find yourself back in the same seat, with the same waiter, and the same nachos. Welcome to the Novikov Theorem in action!

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