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Temporal Paradoxes
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Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) Extension
Drawing from quantum mechanics, the MWI suggests that any paradoxical action causes the universe to branch into a new reality. When the traveler eliminates their ancestor, they do so in a newly created timeline where they themselves will never be born. The original timeline remains untouched, resolving the contradiction by relocation. However, this creates an infinite cascade of alternate histories, a condition that some physicists claim drains …