TIME TRAVEL WITHOUT CAUSAL LOOPS.
It has sometimes been suggested that backwards time travel always incurs causal loops. I show that this is mistaken, by describing worlds where backwards time travel occurs and yet no causal loops occur. Arguments that backwards time travel can occur without causal loops have been given before in th...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 59; no. 234; pp. 54 - 68 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jan2009
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| Sumario: | It has sometimes been suggested that backwards time travel always incurs causal loops. I show that this is mistaken, by describing worlds where backwards time travel occurs and yet no causal loops occur. Arguments that backwards time travel can occur without causal loops have been given before in the literature, but I show that those arguments are unconvincing. |
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