Grandfather paradox in time travel

Sfetcu, Nicolae Grandfather paradox in time travel., 2019 [Preprint]

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English 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).

Item type: Preprint
Keywords: grandfather paradox, time travel, special relativity, paradox
Subjects: D. Libraries as physical collections. > DI. Science libraries.
Depositing user: Nicolae Sfetcu
Date deposited: 26 Jun 2023 06:45
Last modified: 26 Jun 2023 06:45
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/44519

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