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The Bootstrap Paradox, Explained

Beeyond Ideas | April 18, 2024
The Bootstrap Paradox, Explained

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  1. @King-jq5vt

    April 18, 2024 at 9:43 pm

    This isn't a great explanation of the paradox. In this example he's pretending to be someone else in the past (but isn't that person) I could go back in time and say I'm bill Gates and start a computer company but that doesn't make me bill Gates or replace the real Bill. It's not even a paradox.
    The bootstrap paradox would be if I received a package in the mail telling me how to build a time making. So I build it and go back in time to find out I was the one who sent it to myself. That's it.

  2. @kanuni1979

    April 18, 2024 at 9:43 pm

    One example is the bootstrap paradox in the Terminator series. Skynet sent the T800 back to 1984. It got destroyed and it's CPU was used to create skynet. So who created the CPU?

  3. @Jamil1989

    April 18, 2024 at 9:43 pm

    In my opinion, the bootstrap paradox does not "make the time-traveler into always-have-been Einstein". Because then he has to be the kid-Einstein upto dead-Einstein. The whole biography/history of Einstein is not the same person if the paradox is correct. It is just a brain-teaser, quite attractive, somehow a distraction.

  4. @RedneckRepairs

    April 18, 2024 at 9:43 pm

    I'm sorry for not pressing the "bell" to receive notifications. Instead I let destiny lead me to videos, as it did this one..although now that I've watched it, YouTube will inevitably suggest another, because algorithms….So I guess YouTube is cheating destiny and creating its own causality. That's a problem.

  5. @aarav34590

    April 18, 2024 at 9:43 pm

    I think there is only one way you can time travel back in time which is to reverse the time ⌚ by reversing the whole universe you can go back in time but here is another problem you won't remember anything, if somehow only you can remember all the things and reverse the time than you can take advantage of time travel, but this is impossible, and if you reverse the time and you won't remember anything then also you can't take advantage of time travel, if there is someone like loki series TVF watching you and help you to remember anything when you reverse the time than it's possible, but we need someone how See's our timeline,reversing the time and whole universe is the only way where paradox doesn't exist, i checked all the possibility and i know if someone manage to travel to the past is impossible, and reversing the time theory is also impossible because it's need the speed of light in such amount that it go backwards, so it's not possible to travel through past sadly, we just stuck here in this world, we don't have any power or control to shape our life 😞

  6. @Ubermentsh

    April 18, 2024 at 9:43 pm

    There is no past present or future. The random events that seem to occur are actually the lack of fidelity. Which creates the illusion of randomness. It's the absence of true fidelity.

  7. @thehellbird8946

    April 18, 2024 at 9:43 pm

    The main thing is. The 30 year old you went back to your childhood say when you were 10 and you never changed anything or interacted with yourself. That 10 year old you would grow up to build a time machine and come back to the same point. It would be repetitive, as the 30 year old you, you would be stuck in that time riff because there is no time machine yet, so hypothetically there would be 2 versions of you in the same universe so when your 20 there will be a 40 year old you. But if your not consciously aware of your other self that means the older you is you because they live the same life but it's not you, any multiple self conscious copy of you is infact from a parallel universe. Practically a twin. 🤔

  8. @eggoryheffley7569

    April 18, 2024 at 9:43 pm

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