The Buckets by Greg Cravens for December 08, 2023

I think I saw that show just last week.

For the longest time whenever I’d turn on an old Star Trek episode it would be the one where Kirk was sent down to some planet to have a duel with a giant alligator.

I must have missed this episode. Greg, I love how everyone in the family plays along with Eddie looking for the time machine. I wish I’d been that inventive when I had kids living at home.

A causal loop is a theoretical proposition that occurs when an event is among the causes of another event, which is in turn among the causes of the first-mentioned event. It is also known as a bootstrap paradox, information loop, ontological paradox, and a predestination paradox1. A causal loop may involve an event, a person or object, or information.

One dox is enough a pair of them, well…

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Baffle them with tech talk.

As my Doctor said, “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.”

beam me up

Great job of creativity there, dad!

They aren’t in a repeating loop, so it’s not a chronic hystoresis.