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{{quote|''It's like, take a piece of paper and draw a line on it. Then from the end of that line draw a bunch of branches. Then from the end of each of those branches, draw a bunch more. That's time.''
''Now take that tree you've just drawn. Put it on a desk. And empty your inkwell onto it. That's what happens when a time machine blows up.''
|'''Tycho Green''', ''[http://adamcadre.ac/if.html#Shrapnel Shrapnel]''}}
'''For the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' mini-episode which could have ended in this trope, see [[Doctor Who/Recap/2007 Ci NS Time Crash]].'''
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== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'', Harry decides not to experiment with the Time-Turner any more for fear of one of these (after a truly brilliant experiment that, if successful, could have used [[Stable Time Loop]]s to [[wikipedia:Novikov self-consistency principle|solve any NP problem]], yielded instead the sentence 'DO NOT MESS WITH TIME').
** Brilliant, maybe, but also fundamentally flawed - the idea was to test a potential solution, if it worked, cause a stable time loop by seeding the loop with that solution, and if it didn't, to seed the loop with the next solution. The trouble with the plan is that it only gets to the stable time loop if he hits the solution first time, while he planned to iterate through the potential solutions in a fixed order, starting with one that he knew wouldn't work... Rather than cause a paradox by producing the solution, the situation resolved in a safe stable time-loop instead - a Time ''Error Message''.
** While the likes of Harry are properly scared by notes in their own shaky handwriting, the likes of Dumbledore know what can happen if you push it. {{spoiler|Apparently, experimenting with time got Atlantis ''erased from the timestream''.}}
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