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[When the feed clicked on, it was showing an image of Liquid sitting on what appeared to be the edge of a building. It was evening, and the sun was in just the right place so that the sky behind him was lit with red and orange, and made his hair blaze like a golden halo around his head.]
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[He had it explained to him once, by someone a lot smarter than he is.]
You can't change what happens, really. But you can change the circumstances, if you're careful. Kind of like Back To The Future, only with less classic rock.
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[If the world tried to end over it, he would damn well put it back together.]
How much can the circumstances be changed? And how do you know what can be changed and what can't be?
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[And going with the example that was given to him.]
Say someone knew your car was going to get stolen. They can't prevent it cause that'd be a paradox and Michael J Fox would start fading from existence. But if they warn you to park in a well-lit garage somewhere instead of on the street, it gets broken into instead of taken in a carjacking. The theft still happens, but no one's got a bullet in their head and you don't need to go back to the old west to save a mad scientist.
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Let's take this metaphor of yours and make it a little more like my situation. Let's say that the car is a giant bipedal nuclear deathtank, and I'm the person who's supposed to commandeer it to take over the world. What you're telling me is that if I decide to not commandeer the tank and, in fact, prevent its creator from ever making it in the first place, Michael J Fox will disappear.
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Basically, yeah. You stop the giant nuclear Voltron from being created, you've negated any way for you to have gotten the information at all and the universe goes boom.
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...I'd think it'd be a very poorly-made universe if it would explode just because one person changed a few events in the entire course of its several billion-year history.
Couldn't I just be creating an alternate timeline or something? Didn't someone theorize something like that?
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[Welcome to the world of the Dresden Files. We don't have giant robots, but we do have spirits of pure knowledge.]
I assume it's got something to do with the whole butterfly effect thing. ...The scientific theory, not the movie. Though I heard that was bad enough to end a universe, too.
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Give it a small thermal exhaust port two-meters wide.
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And even if I did just tweak the design, that doesn't stop me from getting blown up in the bloody thing. I'd like to try to stay alive in my hypothetical less shitty future.
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Yeah, that makes things a little more difficult. 'Less you can fake your own death and arrange for someone else to do the designing, that'll probably get pretty world breaky.
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[Will this deter him at all from making them? Nope.]
No way of knowing. Might be able to rig up some kind of remote control for the thing, I suppose.
[A giant robot is like a really big RC car, right? Electronics, how do.]
Tricky part'd be if your death is, metaphorically, what drives Gollum to fall into Mount Doom, say. The whole 'for want of a nail' kind of thing.
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Wonderful.
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[Harry's a helper.]
Either way it'd be possible to work something out, but you'd have to be very, very careful.
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