Grandfather paradox in time travel

Nicolae Sfetcu ()
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Nicolae Sfetcu: Romanian Academy - Romanian Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (CRIFST), History of Science Division (DIS)

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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).

Keywords: grandfather paradox; time travel; special relativity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4 pages
Date: 2019-01
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