#the grandfather paradox

[doctor-whu]

I obsessed with scenes that explain paradoxes in an interesting way

#doctor who #the umbrella academy #tua #the grandfather paradox #beethoven paradox #12th doctor #the doctor

[itwasagoodjoke]

The Grandfather Paradox

I'm watching The Umbrella Academy, and in season three, episode two, our favorite dumbasses realize that they've caused a time paradox. I'm not going to explain the time paradox they have caused, because the show already gives you an example, but I would like to talk about the fact that Five has done this before.

In season one, episode one, Five goes back in time to stop the apocalypse and he succeeds (a lot of stuff happens in between, but in the end, he stops it), and by doing so he creates a paradox.

You see, when Five stopped the apocalypse he made it so that when he went forward in time when he was truly thirteen, the apocalypse never happened, which means he never went back in time to stop the apocalypse, which means that the apocalypse happened, which means that he goes back in time and stopped the apocalypse, which means that when he was truly thirteen, the apocalypse never happened, which means he never went back in time to stop the apocalypse, which means-

Do you see what I'm saying? Five already created The Grandfather Paradox. It just never was talked about or went into effect in canon.

#the umbrella acadamy #five #five hargreeves #the grandfather paradox #how is that not a tag yet #tua #tua season 3

[kyliafanfiction]

I mean, the idea of Eddie erasing Thawne from the timeline is one that you can’t ever apply hard logic to. Because if Thawne is never born then the events that erase him don't happen because Eddie only shot himself because of Thawne's presence, so in a Thawne free timeline Eddie never shot himself and then it basically spirals out into a classic Grandfather Paradox. Eddie erasing Thawne was bad writing to begin with.

I mean, yes, but if they were going to let it work in the first place, and keep Eddie dead, then they needed to keep it that way. Once you decide that killing your grandfather really does kill you (as not all versions of time travel do that. Some say variations on 'stepping out of the time line at all protects you personally from causality'), then you kind of have to stick to that. They kind of made it work for a bit, especially on LoT, where they suggest that he's stayed alive by outrunning his own death through the time stream, but when that finally catches up with him, that really should have been the end. Instead... they just keep bringing him back. Over. And Over. And Over.

I get that he's a classic comics archnemesis, but at some point, a TV show has to remember it's a TV show, not a comic book.

#Eobard Thawne #The Grandfather Paradox #Time Travel #You Fail Temporal Physics Forever #The you being the Flash Writers here ftr #not you the anon #Asked and Answered

[theamazingstories]

Travels Through the Fourth Dimension

Travels Through the Fourth Dimension

And it’s time time time, and it’s time time time, And it’s time time time that you love, And it’s time time time. ~ Tom Waits Time is an illusion: our naive perception of its flow doesn’t correspond to physical reality. Or, as Albert Einstein wrote; “…the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” What does this mean, you ask, and, what does this have…

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#A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&039;s Court #Dinosaur Beach #H. G. Wells #Keith Laumer #Kindred #Mark Twain #Octavia Butler #The Grandfather Paradox #The Peripheral #The Time Machine #Time travel #William Gibson

[gallifreyanhotfive]

#doctor who #dw #dr who #the doctor #grandfather paradox #faction paradox #this is not about what he might have intended but how you interpret it #dont think too hard about it #just gut instinct click #just like that #thank you dear

[midnight-mismanagement]

Five: I wonder if it’s too late to be unadopted.

Reginald: Say no more.

#five hargreeves #reginald hargreeves #this line aged poorly rip #tua #the umbrella academy #tua s3 #tua s2 #even without the grandfather paradox #reggie would've still unadopted them

[feelingthedisaster]

the real question is, if you went 5000 years to the past and kill a random person, how probable is that a great-great-greatx10 grandfather paradox happens?

#i asked my physics teacher about it. she only said “its a interesting concept” and nothing more #i need a number #physics #grandfather paradox #paradox #paradoxs

[pl9090]

(Guess what I got for Christmas). As stated previously part of my Chapters and Houses headcanon canonwelds by having all Chapter members being required to wear their Chapter robes for ceremonial occassions, (Deadly Assasin's, "seldom worm robes") which is the kind of expected pomp. Mr Miles said Grandfather Paradox looked like Norman Stanley Fletcher. I don't think he'd of worn a skullcap as part of the, "allowed but frowned upon" thing. Naturally if someone would like to try and make such a custom please let the Faction Paradox fandom know.

#faction paradox #book of the war #doctor who #timelords #great houses #bbc doctor who #whoniverse #grandfather paradox #avus #Norman Stanley Fletcher #Porridge #Chapter #House #Character options #action figure #ceremonial robes #headcanon #canonwelding #custom #prydon #prydonian #House Paradox

[inaris-pokemon-world]

⭕🎲

Porygon is a species of Pokémon made by Silph Co. decades in the past. This is an irrefutable fact, and Silph is quick to quash rumors otherwise. Every Porygon comes embedded with copy protection, after all!

The Porygon roaming in the wild MUST be released from trainers.

The depictions of Porygon from the ancient north MUST be fabricated.

No one can know the truth.

#munday ask #ask meme #porygon #coverup? #conspiracy? #i’m not saying silph was inspired to make porygon #from descriptions from hisui #and that porygon is a grandfather paradox #but i am thinking it awful hard~

[lurking-latinist]

I know there’s really no canonical support for it, but I do like the idea that Susan is from the Doctor’s future, partly because that means she is constantly at risk of literally causing a grandfather paradox

#I mean the usual formulation of the paradox isn't #'your grandfather gets himself killed before you're born while being a menace in his youth and you couldn't stop him' #but the logic of it still works #doctor who #susan foreman

[jlhynde-insanitybrilliance]

UDLTTOM DIALOGUE DRAFT #16

*Theodore just finished explaining the Grandfather Paradox*

Harry: So basically you’re saying that if I kill him (points to Thaddeus/ Thaddeus: wtf😳 ) that’ll prevent you from ever being born, and if you’re never born, we never end up here and—

Theodore: No, no that’s wrong 😑. The paradox only applies to people from our own time. You could kill him (nods at Thaddeus/ Thaddeus: 😬) and it wouldn’t effect me because he’s not my actually my father. They have the same genetic markers, but they may as well be identical twins.

Thaddeus: So I’m like an uncle??? I thought I was your dad??

*Theodore and Harry ignore him*

Theodore: However, say one of them was to end up in our time line and pop off Fleamont… you would no longer exist and it would likely lead to us never coming here and them being unable to knock off your grandfather which creates a paradox and a repeating series of events to correct it.

Harry: …okay. So everyone here is a twin to someone in our original timeline.

Thaddeus: So I really am your uncle??

Avery (laughing): Yeah uncle daddy—pfft!

Thaddeus:

#udlttom #tomarry fanfic #dialogue draft #tomarry #time travel au #grandfather paradox #harry potter #theodore nott #Thaddeus Nott #Nott sr #poor boi is super confused #time travel discussion #Thaddeus: can we please stop talking about my hypothetical murder thnx

[chimerafeathers]

wof au: jerboa iii uses animus magic to nullify the effect of any animus spells cast throughout history, accidentally including her own. when she breaks the lamp, pyrrhia just explodes

#joke: grandfather paradox #the funniest answer to any paradox is 'everything explodes' #even without the paradox. the writers of that au get so frustrated working out the new timeline that they just. blow up pyrrhia #wof #wings of fire #jerboa wof

[familyparadox]

Crying about Katarina and Grandfather Halfling reuniting in the City of the Saved.

The City of the Saved is perfect for angst and fluff and romance and joy and pain. Like akkkk

#doctor who #dweu #faction paradox #doctor who eu #katarina #Grandfather Halfling #city of the saved #the city of the saved

[a-wartime-paradox]

Lance Parkin on the Eighth Doctor and the Last Great Time War, relating to the Grandfather Paradox of The Ancestor Cell

Last paragraph ends "Theory to work, they just need to be able to hit the Time Lords hard"

#ahistory lance parkin #grandfather paradox #eighth doctor #end of the last great time war #eighth doctor adventures #citation posts

[redgillan]

the beginning of this episode was so cute but everything else felt so rushed, especially the veil scene. just… add more episodes so we can have a proper flashback and then go back and deal with magic veil stuff

#the pacing bothers me #and we haven’t seen nakia in 2 episodes #and we only have one left #and suddenly that guy has powers? how? why? and no credit scene? #they introduced 30 new characters in this show and we only have 6 episodes and the episodes are shorter and shorter #najma decided to sacrifice herself to save them after decades of trying to go back to her realm #she killed and abandoned her kid but now she has a change of heart in 2 mins bc she realised shes not a great mom? nah pls #they literally proved the grandfather paradox bc if kamala saved her grandmother in the 40s how can she have been born if the grandmother #hadn’t been saved? #none of this makes sense #it could have if they had taken the time to build a better plot with less characters and more episodes #ms marvel spoilers #ms marvel #maisie rants

[gallifreyanhotfive]

You know how occasionally someone in the show will just list off the Doctor's other names (the Oncoming Storm, the Valeyard, etc etc like they did in The Name of the Doctor and other stuff)? Next time they do that can I PLEASE get a Grandfather Paradox mention? They don't even have to bring it in just say the name. Say it!

#doctor who #dw #dr who #classic who #new who #eighth doctor #grandfather paradox #faction paradox #the valeyard #the oncoming storm #the doctor #and while theyre at it put the emperor in too