time paradox
Temporal logic violation
A time paradox is a logical contradiction arising from hypothetical time travel.
The classic example: if you traveled back and killed your grandfather before your parent was born, you couldn't exist to make the trip.
Time paradoxes are staples of science fiction, exploring what happens when cause and effect become tangled: The movie's plot hinged on a time paradox.
- causalityCause-effect connection
- chronologyTemporal ordering of events
- pastTime already gone
- contradictionOpposing claims, incompatible together
- multiverseHypothetical set of universes
temporal anomaly · butterfly effect · free will · spacetime · determinism · circularity · recursion · causal loop · entropy · self-reference · relativity · metaphysics · consistency · quantum mechanics · ripple · timeline · alternate timeline · quantum
- paradoxescatch-22, Zeno's paradoxes, causal loop, self-contradiction, ship of Theseus
- sci-fi conceptsspace exploration, faster-than-light, generation ships, multiverse, parallel worlds
- timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
- time conceptsclock, calendar, hour, minute, second
- Back to the FutureDeLorean, Doc Brown, Marty McFly, flux capacitor, hoverboard
- logic puzzlessudoku, skyscraper, tapa, cave, corral