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THE BOOTSTRAP PARADOX

“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”

                                                -Albert Einstein

Time or ‘Samay’, what is it? Is there its identity exist in this physical world? Or its just an illusion? We all people experience all time and also we have various methods to experience the passage of time. But what is time in reality? It is a debatable topic, which is very wide. Normally, the progression of an event from its past to present and present to future, known as time. If we see it in terms of physics than time is the fourth dimension of our reality, which we use to describe any event in our three dimensional space-time. It is a broad and debatable topic, which is very wide. So we shall cover it in future.

Now let’s come to the topic. Normally we all know that the flow of time is linear and moves forward always in one direction that is, past then present and then you all know, future. Also we get to know from this, that our past influence our present and present influence our future.

So we are clear that any event, which is happening in present ultimately affect our future. But in this model of time our future can’t affect our present. Now what happens, if we can move in past through time-travel? Does the things still remain same? Definitely not.

Actually when we think about travelling to our past, then we face many paradoxes. Due to this most of the scientist thought, that it is impossible to travel in past.

‘Bootstrap paradox’ is such a paradox.

Any object, person, idea or thought, goes in past via Time-Travel, if struck in an endless loop, where we are able to know that it exists in reality, but becomes impossible for us to identify its true origin. Then such scenario is called Bootstrap Paradox.

Netflix series (Based on Bootstrap Paradox)-Dark’s dialogue:

Where is the beginning?

When is the beginning?

Is there a beginning at all?

Let’s say time travel exists, could the past really be changed?

Now we know moving towards past crates many paradoxes. Let’s talk about ‘Pre-destination Paradox’, which is related to ‘Bootstrap Paradox’. According to this, we can’t change which has already been happened. That is we can’t change any event of past. Now if we try to attempt so, then we’ll find that unknowingly we trigger the same event, for which we came in past. All of our attempts to change the event will become the reason of happening for that event.

Example- Time Machine (movie)

Also, we can change the event of past, but it can only be possible if parallel universe exist. And whenever we try to change past event, then it should give birth to a different timeline. It is also based on Schrodinger Cat experiment or Multiverse theory.

 

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