Originally Posted by A Deo et Rege

xplosive cooker......You were right about the saying, "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction," but you are wrong about chaos theory, a.k.a. The Butterfly effect, chaos theory states that the smallest act can be that catalyst that leads to massive changes, in other words no matter how small the catalyst the outcome can be massive. The thing about time is that it is not light it is merely the dimension through which all matter travels. Light is actually a vibration of the fifth dimension. KonaClump had the right idea but the wrong metaphor, let me see if I can produce a more efficient one; Lets say you remove an animal from an environment that relies on it, with the animal gone whatever niche it filled will be filled by another animal, that will change the habits of that animal and thus every other animal that previously interacted with this animal before long the entire environment has changed to fill the void left by you removing the fist animal.>>>>>> To better explain what Rasta meant by the time paradox he stated I will present my own; The grandmother paradox which you should of all heard of states that if you were to go back in time and find your grandmother as a young girl and kill her before she had your mother or father then you would never be born so thus you could not go back in time in the first place to kill your grandmother, here is an interesting thought, so if it is impossible to kill your grandmother them what would happen when you shoot her with a gun? would the time line split to accommodate the new event or would the fabric of space time unravel plunging you into an empty void?

Originally Posted by SuperSkunk

About the grandmother/grandfather affect. When I was baked I heard about this. I thought about it like this. You go back and kill your great great great grand father (doesn't matter how great) and nothing you notice weird happens. You have a kid and you actually find you are your real great great great grand father. I don't know if I explained that right but it's my thoughts on the subject of that.

Originally Posted by A Deo et Rege

There is one problem with your assumption, If you in fact go back in time and kill your great^10 grandfather and have sex with your great^10 grandmother you would do the same thing as what I had previously stated; 1st> Your nastification of the past would create a time loop in which you would continuously return to the past to do the dirty deed, in other words you would be born in the future and grow until the age in which you traveled to the past and then travel back to the point at which it all began and repeat it for eternity. 2nd> You would create an entirely new line of descendants in which you yourself would not exist so thus you could not commit the dirty act in the first place. 3rd> Your traveling to the past would create another time line in which you would in fact be you own great^n grandfather and reality as you once new it would no longer exist in the present of the new time line. Does that explain it in great enough detail?