 and RESOLUTION OF THE PARADOX (<i>right</i>))
THE NOTORIOUS MOTHER PARADOX (left) and RESOLUTION OF THE PARADOX (right)
Image: PHILIP HOWE
THE NOTORIOUS MOTHER PARADOX (sometimes formulated using other familial relationships) arises when people or objects can travel backward in time and alter the past. A simplified version involves billiard balls. A billiard ball passes through a wormhole time machine. Upon emerging, it hits its earlier self, thereby preventing it from ever entering the wormhole.
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Add Commenttime travel is possible only in a zero dimension where "time does not exist", yet infinite time does exist. 3d stuff won t fit unless it enters a black hole
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