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Originally Posted by JTH
Meaning they didn't understand how their meddling in the past corrected the timeline, until they realized they were always part of the timeline.
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Except they weren't, because Hamato still had to go to NYC and buy the Turtles or else they wouldn't exist to go back in time. So Hamato still had to be saved by
something the first time that was not the Turtles.
To use PangolinFeets' article in a way he didn't intend:
"The idea of backward causation should not be confused with that of time travel. These two notions are related to the extent that both agree that it is possible to causally affect the past.
The difference, however, is that time travel involves a causal loop whereas backward causation does not.