“The bootstrap paradox. This occurs “when something is created out of nothing or something is causing itself”, says Barak Shoshany. Suppose, he suggests, that a time machine appears in your room right now. An older version of you steps out, announces they are from 10 years in the future, and gives you the plans for the time machine. You spend the next decade building the time machine, then use it to go back to today to give yourself the plans. The question is, says Barak Shoshany: “Who made the plans for the time machine?” Read the full article on BBC.com/future
Here is a youtube video on bootstrapping.
What I like about this particular paradox is that it solves the equation, neatly.
If you are a reader of SciFi, then undoubtedly you have come across time travel. In SciFi, this is solved quite easily and there are a plethora of great novels, movies and streaming series to that solve this issue. I am currently using something called the Necker Cube in my upcoming novel (series) Silversides.
Here is my list of some SciFi media where Time Travel and/or Parallel Universes are the theme, but by no means is this a definitive list of the best– only those I have read or viewed, which I thought introduced an interesting twist on these subjects.
BOOK Form:
- The Rise And Fall Of DODO – Neal Stephenson
- The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
- Pastwatch: The Redemption Of Christopher Columbus – Orson Scott Card
- Sea Of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel
- The Traveler Series (Book I & II) – John Twelve Hawks
MOVIES/STREAMING SERIES (more recent). When it comes to movies, there are just too many to list–and truly some classics that I fail to mention here. These are the more recent, which I thought viewers may have missed.
Feel free to drop a comment of your favorite reads/views that you thought had a twist on time travel/parallel universes.
David Nadas 