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[tj_dragon]

I'm not sure why I feel slightly discontented at the moment. It could be that i still haven't got a job (though I have various options for finding one) and the various helpful websites are proving that they don't deserve this reputation. Possibly it's because Dave has gone to work I have been with him non-stop since tuesday morning. Still he'll be

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[x_equals_speed]

Time paradox is something I end up wondering about a lot. Consider the following:

If people have free will then there are an infinate possibility of futures all with a minute chance of happening. Anything a person could want, in the future, to come back and do at *this* point it is equally concievable that someone else would want to do the opposite. Thus both people come back in time and nullify each other. Given complete free will time travel is possible, but pointless as every influence has an equal and opposite counterpart.

If people do not then it can work on a predetermination basis (someone was always going to go back in time and do X) this means you can be your own father and all that hokey but it is physically impossible to create a paradox by killing your own grandfather. Or visit yourself (unless you already had the memory before you went back to make it in which case it would be impossible not to visit yourself)

If theres an inbetween state in which some things are determined and others are fixed then what could or couldn't happen would tell us a lot about the nature of the universe.

Anyway, just my thoughts on the subject. Equally random and geekish.

[tj_dragon]

Well the way I see it time paradox appears in pretty much all time travel fiction and I'm not likely to break that trend. Despite personal opinions on the subject its probably best to either ignore it or make a joke out of it. If I do write this down then any characters (so far i have 3) will simply be in careers/situations involving timetravel but they won't necessarily know the technical side of it all.
I'm fairly sure that one character will have a list of stories/facts about travellers who've gone insane/committed incest/made themselves cease to exist etc. However I reckon she is likely to be highly amused by these facts so they should come across as amusing.