Memory Alpha:Pages for deletion/Grandfather paradox (I)

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Deletion rationale

Don't think this was ever mentioned in Trek. -Angry Future Romulan 19:53, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

Discussion

• Merge with predestination paradox. Bashir did not use this term, and this article even states it is the same thing as predestination paradox. As such it should be merged with that article, but the "resolution' section should be jettisoned, as it is speculation/original research.--31dot 20:10, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

• Actually, I'm working on the predestination paradox page right now. These two paradoxes are not the same, as the grandfather paradox is simply a headscratcher problem (what if you travel back in time and kill your own grandfather before your parents were born, then you would never exist to travel back in time in the first place...), but the predestination paradox is a time loop, in which one becomes (and indeed, always was) part of historical events. If anything they are opposite. -Angry Future Romulan 20:17, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

I was only going by the text of the article- if they are different, this might be a case like tidal locking where the term was not used but it was described. I thought Bashir called it a predestination paradox, though.--31dot 20:28, September 3, 2010 (UTC)