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phoenix64I can't help but be amused at seeing Doctor Who fans get together and complain about a temporal paradox in the show as if it were a violation of Newton's laws. Which, incidentally, are looking a bit wibbly-wobbly themselves these days to those who are paying attention. Seriously folks, you're essentially treating a fictional trope* as if it were scientific fact. Because the scientific rules of time travel have been so clearly established.
The truth is that real science contains numerous concepts to make your head hurt all on its own. Aristotle probably would have thought resonance was a romantic fiction and that's not even an advanced concept. That's one of the fabulous things about science: the more we learn about the universe the more interesting it becomes. Not less. I think it's entirely possible that a universe that can allow for the existence of a Möbius strip can deal with a little logical burp in the time stream. Assuming it even remotely resembles a stream at all.
*This is not to say that philosophers and even physicists haven't seriously discussed the issue, just that discussion can only cover the logical aspects. We really haven't even begun to plumb the scientific rules for time itself. The idea that a temporal paradox absolutely can't happen is a concept we've absorbed from fiction.
The truth is that real science contains numerous concepts to make your head hurt all on its own. Aristotle probably would have thought resonance was a romantic fiction and that's not even an advanced concept. That's one of the fabulous things about science: the more we learn about the universe the more interesting it becomes. Not less. I think it's entirely possible that a universe that can allow for the existence of a Möbius strip can deal with a little logical burp in the time stream. Assuming it even remotely resembles a stream at all.
*This is not to say that philosophers and even physicists haven't seriously discussed the issue, just that discussion can only cover the logical aspects. We really haven't even begun to plumb the scientific rules for time itself. The idea that a temporal paradox absolutely can't happen is a concept we've absorbed from fiction.
