The Great Grandfather Paradox Disaster | Case Study

Case 345: The Time-Traveling Grandfather

Warning: Do not attempt to replicate this experiment. The results were... messy.

A 45-year-old man, eager to prove the theory that time travel is possible, decided to test the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle in a real-world setting. He built a time machine that, instead of going back in time, went... sideways.

The machine, powered by a combination of duct tape, WD-40, and pure, unadulterated madness, malfunctioned spectacularly. It created a pocket universe where the grandfather in question had a son, who had a son, who had a son, ad infinitum.

Timeline:

1850 Grandfather
1920 Grandfather's Son
1950 Grandfather's Son's Son
2000 Grandfather's Son's Son's Son
2050 Grandfather's Son's Son's Son's Son

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Epilogue: Quantum Mechanics of Bad Dreams