temporal paradox
Causality loop problem
A temporal paradox is a logical contradiction arising from time travel—when cause and effect become tangled across different points in time.
The classic example: if you travel back and prevent your parents from meeting, you wouldn't exist to make the trip.
The movie's plot hinges on a temporal paradox.
Science fiction explores these puzzles endlessly, though physicists debate whether the universe would actually permit them.
- time travelMovement across temporal points
- time loopRepeated span of existence
- causalityCause-effect connection
- causal loopSelf-causing temporal cycle
- loopCurve closing on itself
bootstrap · timeline · wormhole · future · time stream · past · butterfly effect · alternate reality · parallel universe · causation · predestination · fixed point · closed loop · flux · continuum · self-contradiction · destiny · fate
- paradoxescatch-22, causal loop, self-contradiction, ship of Theseus, infinite regress
- time traveltime machine, time loop, time jump, time slip, causal loop
- timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
- sci-fiscience fiction, Star Wars, sci-fi, Blade Runner 2049, aliens
- time conceptsclock, calendar, hour, minute, second
- Back to the FutureDeLorean, Doc Brown, Marty McFly, flux capacitor, time machine
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