The Rules of Temporal Mechanics
Time travel is messy. If you go back and change something, you risk breaking causality.
The Major Theories
- The Grandfather Paradox: You go back and kill your grandfather. So you are never born. So you can't go back to kill him. So he lives. So you are born...
- * *Result*: The universe crashes (or you just fail).
- The Multiverse (Avengers/DBZ): Going back creates a *new* timeline. You can kill your grandpa, but you just return to a different future. Your original timeline is unchanged.
- The Bootstrap Paradox: You go back and give Shakespeare his own plays. He publishes them. Who wrote them? The information has no origin.
- Frequency Sensitivity (Back to the Future): Time is like a river. You can throw a stone (save your parents' marriage) and the ripples change things, but the river flows on.
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This calculator checks your intended "Timeline Incursion" against these models to predict the most likely outcome: from "Stable Loop" to "Total Reality Collapse."