Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24137779-20141128163849/@comment-26010249-20141129053820

Madlooney6 wrote:

How would Ken know that he is the same Spanner from the stories if he was simply trying to be the hero that aided his dad when he was young. Exactly. He did not know it was him. But it was still him, if he took on the name spanner from the Spanner Ben met, which is still him who got his name from Ben's stories too and the Spanner from those stories aswell and so on. That would cause an inescapable loop called a paradox. It's kind of hard to explain so please bear with me.

To escape a paradox either stop what caused it or reality will create an alternate timeline.

Since if a timeline where spanner Got his name from a different source is created then the Spanner based on stories of that one will be normal. But that's not possible since the spanner Ben met has to be the spanner from the main timeline that got his name from somewhere else. But since Ben met a Spanner who got his name from stories about then a timeline will be created which must become the main timeline where spanner got his name from somewhere else. But it's not possible because Ben's timeline is already the main timeline.