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THE TWIN PARADOX
THE GRANDFATHER PARADOX
The grandfather paradox is a classic time travel paradox that questions what would happen if someone went back in time and prevented their grandfather from meeting their grandmother, which would stop one of their parents—and therefore themselves— from being born. If they were never born, they couldn't have traveled back in time to cause this event in the first place.
The twin paradox is a thought experiment in relativity where one twin travels in a high-speed spaceship, while the other remains on Earth. Due to time dilation, predicted by Einstein’s theory of special relativity, time passes more slowly for the traveling twin. When the traveling twin returns, they are younger than the twin who stayed on Earth, illustrating how relative motion affects the passage of time.
THE BOOTSTRAP PARADOX
The bootstrap paradox is a time travel paradox where an object or information is sent back in time, becoming the original source of itself, with no clear origin. For example, if someone receives a book with information from the future and then uses that information to write the same book, the book exists without a true point of creation. This creates a loop, where cause and effect are tangled, challenging our understanding of time and causality.
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