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Grandfather paradox in time travel

Authors :
Sfetcu, Nicolae
Source :
Sfetcu, Nicolae Grandfather paradox in time travel., 2019 [Preprint]
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Preprint

Abstract

The most well-known example of the impossibility of traveling in time is the grandfather paradox or self-infanticide argument: a person who travels in the past and kills his own grandfather, thus preventing the existence of one of his parents and thus his own existence. A philosophical response to this paradox would be the impossibility of changing the past, like Novikov self-consistency principle (if an event exists that would cause a paradox or any "change" to the past whatsoever, then the probability of that event is zero, thus it would be impossible to create time paradoxes).

Subjects

Subjects :
DI. Science libraries.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
E-LIS (Eprints in Library & Information Science)
Journal :
Sfetcu, Nicolae Grandfather paradox in time travel., 2019 [Preprint]
Accession number :
edseli.44519
Document Type :
Preprint