English Explanatory Dictionary

Novikov self-consistency principle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Novikov self-consistency principle the Novikov self-consistency principle

Etymology

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

Synonyms

Novikov self-consistency conjecture

Related words

Polchinski's paradox
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on N Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary