There are no strings on me.

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Quote from: Wonder Korra on October 24, 2014, 09:09:41 PM

There are no strings on me.

Shut up Megatron :/

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I know it's not Megatron chill out -_-

"A predestination paradox, also called either a causal loop, or a causality loop and (less frequently) either a closed loop or closed time loop, is a paradox of time travel. It exists when a time traveler is caught in a loop of events that "predestines" him or her to travel back in time. Because of the possibility of influencing the past while time traveling, one way of explaining why history does not change is by saying that whatever has happened was meant to happen. A time traveler attempting to alter the past in this model, intentionally or not, would only be fulfilling his role in creating history as we know it, not changing it."

Two examples from Terminator:

Kyle Reese fathering John - Kyle Reese goes back in time and fathers John Connor, whom he later works under in the Resistance.

The T-800 endoskeleton being left in the Cyberdyne factory - The T-800 endoskeleton left in the Cyberdyne factory triggers the AI research that eventually results in the creation of Skynet and terminators. (The actual scene showing that the factory in The Terminator is a Cyberdyne facility is in a deleted scene, but these facts are restarted in Terminator 2: Judgment Day).

Every time I try to explain these elements to myself from Terminator it blows my mind.