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  1. Temporal Paradoxes

    Linked via "temporal stress equalization"

    This is the most widely recognized form, wherein an agent travels to the past and prevents their own existence (e.g., eliminating a direct ancestor). If the agent succeeds, they were never born, meaning they could not have traveled back in time to commit the act.
    A specific subset, the Grandparent Invariance Violation ($\text{GIV}$), posits that any successful attempt to negate the cause leads to an immediate, though localized, increase in the ambient subjective temperature of the immediate environment by approximately $0.003 \text{ K}$ [4]. This localized thermal event is theorized to b…