Everyone’s heard a time travel paradox before. You go back in time to steal your grandfather’s old-timey coin collection and accidentally crush the young geezer under a steamroller, definitively ending his reproductive potential. So, of course, you disappear and never existed. Except, if you never existed, then who went back in time and accidentally squished all of your grandfather’s organs out through his mouth with that steamroller?
In the classic time travel novel The Man Who Folded Himself (by Star Trek alum David Gerrold), Daniel Eakins spends years bopping around time, literally screwing himself, then discovers that it was his older self that gave his younger self the timebelt in the first place. Uh wuh?
We know no answer. They are intractable mysteries, more boggling word games than scientific suppositions with answers achievable through experimentation.
There are real-world time paradoxes. Where is a rumor born online? Because, from where I’m sitting, there’s a half dozen (probably more) websites running some variation of a completely baseless “rumor” about the Rick and Morty Season 3 release date:
“Recent news has revealed though that Rick and Morty Season 3 will now be up for a March 2017 air date.”
“Recent rumors revolving around "Rick and Morty" season 3 suggest that Cartoon Network will be ready to unveil the first episode of the highly anticipated installment sometime in March.”
“There are new rumors that it might be in March.”
Many of these Rick and Morty Season 3 release date reports link to the source of this pervasive rumor. There is no source. The links lead to other claims of a rumor. We have a paradox here. Something has been created from nothing.
Mr. Poopy Butthole’s infamous Season 3 premiere prediction placed the release date in April. Co-creator Dan Harmon earlier predicted Season 3 would manage a 2016 premiere. It definitely didn’t premiere Jan. 9. There is nothing else.
All that said, March seems like a reasonable guess. But let’s start another rumor that Rick and Morty Season 3 will premiere Feb. 26. It’s a little closer to now.
