English Explanatory Dictionary

bootstrap paradox

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A time travel paradox in which the consequences of an event in the future travel back in time and cause an event in the past or present, which in turn is among the causes of the first event, forming a causal loop in which each event is caused by the other.

Word forms

bootstrap paradox bootstrap paradoxes

Etymology

Compare bootstrap, pull oneself up by one's bootstraps, etc.

Synonyms

causal loop paradox

Related words

causal loop grandfather paradox
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