Grandfather Paradox

From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

Grandfather Paradox was more or less a theory who could nevertheless be considered as an individual.

The speaker's chair in the Eleven-Day Empire was left vacant to be taken by the Grandfather upon his appearance to the Faction Paradox. (EDA: Interference - Book One) The Faction Paradox held the Grandfather Paradox up as one of the ultimate forms of temporal paradox.

According to Faction Paradox legend, the Grandfather Paradox would have one arm, he removed one of his arms to remove the Time Lord branding/tattoo of a prisoner, and that he would have committed the ultimate paradox.

Resulting from a corrupted timeline, from Faction Paradox corrupted biodata, a future version of the the Doctor modelled himself as the Grandfather Paradox. (EDA: The Ancestor Cell)

[edit] Behind the Scenes

The name Grandfather Paradox punningly refers to the familiar time travel concept from theoretical science and science fiction.

Isaac Asimov explained it in an episode of the PBS science series Cosmos as such: If I go back in time and kill my grandfather as a young man, he will never marry, never have my parent, which means I will never be born. However, if I am never born, I will not be able to go back in time to kill him, so he will not die, so he will marry and have my parent, so I WILL be born. So I can go back and kill him, but then I will never be born, and so on.