When Knowledge Ruins Time Travel Dreams

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When Knowledge Ruins Time Travel Dreams

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The perfect encapsulation of what happens after watching a Veritasium video on quantum mechanics or time paradoxes! While idealists dream of using time machines for heroic historical interventions, anyone who's actually absorbed Derek Muller's mind-bending explanations knows the truth: mess with time, and you'll probably collapse reality itself. The bottom panel perfectly captures that post-Veritasium existential crisis where you're suddenly aware of quantum uncertainty principles, the grandfather paradox, and how the universe might be a simulation. The desperate "DON'T. LOOK. INTO. IT." is basically the scientific equivalent of "what has been seen cannot be unseen."

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