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Simon Hawke's ''[[Time Wars]]'' has a similar Law of Historical Inertia, and any change you make will be like a stone dropped in the river of time: History will simply flow round it and, for the most part, end up exactly where it was before (so if you wanted to actually change it, you'd essentially need a ''really big'' "stone" to divert the river, the consequences of which could be disaster).
A particular case of ~You Can't Fight Fate~. See also [[In Spite of a Nail]]. Contrast with (but not the exact opposite of) [[No Ontological Inertia]]. May explain [[
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* [[Lost]] plays with this in Season 5. For example, when handling a nuke, Daniel assures them that it can't explode because the island still exists in the future they came from.
* [[The Legendary Adventures Of Hercules]] had an episode where they were worried about how their time travel might affect the present, but Hercules assured them that Time would correct itself, so nothing would change.
* In the final episode of ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'', when [[Big Bad]] [[Kamen Rider X|Apollo Geist]] is defeated, his forcible merger and destruction of the multiverse continues unabated. In fact, if anything it actually speeds up. This leads to Decade receiving a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech from his predecessors.
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