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Novikov self-consistency principle en · PROPN

Etymology

Developed by Russian physicist Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov in the mid-1980s.

Meanings

  1. A conjecture asserting that it is impossible to create paradoxes by time travel because the past cannot be changed.

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Relateds

Polchinski's paradox

Synonyms

Novikov self-consistency conjecture