Trevp666
Don't blame me - I didn't cook it.
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I think actually what you're referring to is the 'Grandfather Paradox' which is a potential logical problem that would arise if a person were to travel to a past time.
The name comes from the idea that if a person travels to a time before their grandfather had children, and kills him, it would make their own birth impossible, thus forcing 'time' itself to intervene to prevent the paradox occurring - the gun jams, or the bullet misses the target, or at just that precise moment an obstacle gets in the way, etc etc.
The name comes from the idea that if a person travels to a time before their grandfather had children, and kills him, it would make their own birth impossible, thus forcing 'time' itself to intervene to prevent the paradox occurring - the gun jams, or the bullet misses the target, or at just that precise moment an obstacle gets in the way, etc etc.