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Old 04-03-2012, 12:49 PM   #52
akp
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Another interesting fact is TMNT 2K3 seems to subscribe to a single linear time stream. Which creates it owns paradoxes. Don was very particular about not polluting the time stream. But the very fact that they made it to the future and gain some info, however miniscule it was did indeed pollute the time stream.

Also since it seems that they follow a single time stream as opposed to the many worlds theory, it would not matter what the turtles did or did not find out while they were in the future, as once they travelled back, all the events that will happen from then on will have incorporated all the things they do know. Single time streams have to be self consistent.

Then there was the episode timing is everything, where Mike and Raph from the very near future, tell their very recent past selves to go home and look for an envelope and ask their selves to do the same when they get to the future. This seems to create a causality problem. Which version originated the thought/knowledge the first. It appears to be cyclical reasoning. They only know about the envelope don mailed from the past from themselves. Which seems to create a contradiction.

Then there was Serling travelling back to the past to meet the turtles as kids. Although there do not seem to be any contradictions here. Another example of a linear time stream.
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