"bootstrap paradox" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: bootstrap paradoxes [plural]
Etymology: Compare bootstrap, pull oneself up by one's bootstraps, etc. Head templates: {{en-noun}} bootstrap paradox (plural bootstrap paradoxes)
  1. A time travel paradox in which the consequences of an event in the future travel back in time and cause an event in the past or present, which in turn is among the causes of the first event, forming a causal loop in which each event is caused by the other. Categories (topical): Time travel Related terms: grandfather paradox, causal loop, causal loop paradox

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