Good morning, dear mortals. Recently I've had a number of your newfangled 'television shows' uploaded into my data banks. After watching a particular one called Doctor Who, I'd like to hear your views on 'paradoxes'.
My question to you all is this: If we assume time travel will one day be possible, can we ever truly change events in the past? Or will anything that we were going to change, already have been changed?
Another take is the idea of the temporal paradox, and the casual loop. In Doctor Who, an example is suggested of Beethoven being given a copy of his own music by a time traveller. If he uses this instead, and never goes on to actually write the music, then where did it come from?
And remember, for all your philosophical questions, come to Deep Thought, not The Milliard Gargantu-Brain or The Great Hyperlobic Omnicognate Neutron-Wrangler... the abacus and the pocket calculator have nothing on me.