Definitions for predestination paradox
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1. predestination paradox

   A causal loop is a theoretical proposition, wherein by means of either retrocausality or time travel, an event (an action, information, object, or person) is among the causes of another event, which is in turn among the causes of the first-mentioned event. Such causally looped events then exist in spacetime, but their origin cannot be determined. A hypothetical example of a causality loop is given of a billiard ball striking its past self: the billiard ball moves in a path towards a time machine, and the future self of the billiard ball emerges from the time machine before its past self enters it, giving its past self a glancing blow, altering the past ball's path and causing it to enter the time machine at an angle that would cause its future self to strike its past self the very glancing blow that altered its path. In this sequence of events, the change in the ball's path is its own cause, which might appear paradoxical.Other terms for "causal loop" are bootstrap paradox, information paradox, ontological paradox, self-sufficient loop, and predestination paradox; see § terminology.

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1. Predestination paradox

   A predestination paradox is a paradox of time travel that is often used as a convention in science fiction. A temporal causality loop is a scenario in which some earlier event #1 is the cause of some later event #2, and through time travel, event #2 is also the cause of event #1. The paradox occurs when a time traveler is caught in a loop of events that "predestines" or "predates" him or her to travel back in time. In this case, event #2 would be the event of the time traveler going back in time, and #1 would be something that time traveler did in the past that in turn influenced him or her to travel back in time. The paradox suggests that those people who travel back in time would have no way of changing a situation. One example would be a person who travels back in time to save a loved one from being hit by a car, then once in the past the person uses a car to try to reach the scene of the accident before it happened, and accidentally hits the very person they had come back to save, causing the death that had inspired their future self to travel back in time.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of predestination paradox in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of predestination paradox in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_Paradox
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