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Hey this guy is right on the mark.  So that's what it is called.  I've always
wondered.  But yeah that's the full story.  Pretty niffty, eh?

The Dark Ange1 wrote:

> Heres the text of that paradox as it appears in Stephen Hawkings, "A Brief
> History of Time" :
>
> �Jane� is left at an orphanage as a foundling. When �Jane� is a teenager, she
> falls in love with a drifter, who abandons her but leaves her pregnant. Then
> disaster strikes. She almost dies giving birth to a baby girl, who is then
> mysteriously kidnapped. The doctors find that Jane is bleeding badly, but, oddly
> enough, has both sex organs. So, to save her life, the doctors convert �Jane� to
> �Jim.�
>
>     �Jim� subsequently becomes a roaring drunk, until he meets a friendly
> bartender (actually a time traveler in disguise) who wisks �Jim� way back into
> the past. �Jim� meets a beautiful teenage girl, then accidentally gets her
> pregnant with a baby girl. Out of guilt, he kidnaps the baby girl and drops her
> off at the orphanage. Later, �Jim� joins the time travelers corps, leads a
> distinguished life, and has one last dream: to disguise himself as a bartender
> to meet a certain drunk named �Jim� in the past. So,  who is �Jane�s� mother,
> father, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother, and grandchild?
>
> This is one of the reasons (according to Hawking), that time travel would be
> impossible, as a paradox of this kind would most probably "destroy" the
> space/time dimension structure.  Arguments to this theory include the Infinite
> universe theory, also known as the Parallel universe theory, which says that
> every time there is an occurence that has more than one possible outcome (and
> remember that nearly everything is possible, just some things are highly
> improbable) , a seperate "universe" branches off from the present for each
> outcome (including the movement of subatomic particles, this means there are a
> very, very large number of parallel universes).
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