[HEADING=1]The Blinovitch Limitation Effect[/HEADING]
The Blinovitch limitation effect is a physical, real limitation which prevents time travellers from interfering with their own history. It has two manifestations, one which prevents time travellers from changing their own past, and one which prevents a time traveller from meeting themself.
The key word here is "Limitation"; that is, the effect limits the amount of interference in the past as opposed to completely prohibiting it. Although it still isn't recommended for the reasons below.
In its first form, the effect is simply a time loop. Blinovitch stated that time is non-linear, and can become circular. A time traveller attempting to change their own history, for better or worse, will simply just create a time-loop, where his or her actions in the past are pre-destined and in fact have already happened.
Basically making the travellers future more "fate" oriented as events are destined to happen the same way again and again.
Time loops are paradoxical in nature, and to occur, time travel across time-streams must have happened. Of course, visiting your own personal past is only possible by crossing your own time-stream.
The Blinovitch limitation effect also has a second form, in this scenario it manifests itself as a force which prevents time travellers from interfering directly with their own past selves.
Basically, someone can't re-do something they have already done.
The force which intervenes may take any known form, manipulating chaotic and quantum variables in a weak manifestation, and manipulating explosive energies in a more violent manifestation. This form of the Blinovitch limitation is related to time eddies, a phenomenon which occurs when localised time runs in reverse, or circles round and round in a whirlpool like fashion.
It may be surprising to learn that both forms of the Blinovitch limitation effect can be circumnavigated.
To cancel out the time-loop in the first instance, it is necessary for an external time-traveller not previously connected with the time-loop to interfere with the creation of the time-loop. This may sound like interfering with a past-event, but there is a subtle difference here. A time-loop is not a real event. Once a time-loop is destroyed, the energy it had consumed to create its alternative reality is released back into the real universe.
Note this time that the destruction of a time-loop is a real event, and any attempts to change this will prevented by the second form of the Blinovitch limitation effect.
However, the second Blinovitch limitation effect can itself be avoided. The trick is simple: cross time-streams. The Blinovitch limitation effect only occurs as a result of a time-traveller meeting himself in his own time-stream. By meeting oneself in another time-stream, the effect does not take place.
Basically, in the event a time paradox...
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[HEADING=1]TIME PARADOX[/HEADING]
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...the event can still be altered based on the circumstances to correct the The Blinovitch Limitation Effect.