Talk:Causality Manipulation/@comment-4013655-20120813004202/@comment-4867780-20120821073310

Only redirect / not create is an interesting point. At some point I wondered if CM could only do the first or both, then I wonder wondered what was exactly the difference between them. What's the difference between redirecting to an effect and creating an effect ? More subtle than it looks... In the end, I concluded that it was a matter of knowlege. Redirecting concerns effects you know of, while creating concerns imagination. This is why I eventually created 2 types of CM : one based on knowledge (limited) and one based on imagination (unlimited). Both are mentioned in the limitations since then.

So a limited version probably couldn't overcome a paradox that is intemporal (no beginning nor end), while an unlimited version could solve it with a finger snap (problem => solution). But I have to say, a paradox that has always existed isn't really a paradox, that would be a law ^ ^