A/N: My first work of fanfiction, this plot was mulling around in my head after watching Season 3 (which I have just finished watching) and since I don't have fancy satellite TV, I thought writing this might keep me entertained while I wait. Hope you think this is worth reading! I know the first few chapters may be a bit short, but I am hoping to expand into longer chapters as I find my writers flow! (I do have an 8 page plan of where I would like to take this story, so encouragement may be needed to get me to the end!)
Disclaimer: Fringe and its characters are not mine, I am only borrowing. And all rights reserved to the Donnie Darko Soundtrack, whose song titles fitted eerily well in giving name to some of the chapters.
"The Philosophy of Time Travel."
The grandfather paradox is a thought experiment highlighting the problems with travelling back in time. Imagine you travel back in time and kill your own grandfather before he meets your grandmother. This of course wipes one of your parents from existence and by default, you.
So how could you have gone back in time to do such a deed, if you never existed in the first place?
Of course you would be stupid (or suicidal) to do such a thing, unless it was a third party who either through action or inaction, was fundamental to erasing you from existence.
However there are a number of theories to avoid such a paradox, such as the idea that the past is unchangeable, that therefore your grandfather must have survived after all, or that in going back in time the traveller created a new alternative time line.
A time line in which; when you were a boy you were kidnapped by a man who looked like your Father, and by accident, you happened to plunge into an ice covered lake. And through inaction, you drowned while a man in a dark suit and bowler hat stood idle, and watched the events unfold.
