• The Novikov self-consistency principle, also known as the Novikov self-consistency conjecture and Larry Niven's law of conservation of history, is a principle...
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  • happen results in a contradiction. This is referred to as the Novikov self-consistency principle. The grandfather paradox encompasses any change to the past...
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    such as Novikov and Deutsch, suggested that these sorts of temporal paradoxes can be avoided through the Novikov self-consistency principle or a variation...
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  • travel through time. In the 1980s, Igor Novikov proposed the self-consistency principle. According to this principle, any changes made by a time traveler...
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  • backwards time travel but prevent time paradoxes, such as the Novikov self-consistency principle, which would ensure the timeline stays consistent, or the...
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    astrophysicist and cosmologist. Novikov put forward the idea of white holes in 1964. He also formulated the Novikov self-consistency principle in the mid-1980s, a...
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  • raising the spectre of the grandfather paradox, although the Novikov self-consistency principle seems to show that such paradoxes could be avoided. Some physicists...
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  • cosmologist Novikov self-consistency principle, principle to solve the problems of paradoxes in time travel, developed by him Ilya Novikov, (b. 1982),...
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    52–58  Ancient Greece portal Myths portal Apollo archetype Novikov self-consistency principle The Boy Who Cried Wolf Tiresias A snake as a source of knowledge...
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    = EPR Gödel metric Krasnikov tube Non-orientable wormhole Novikov self-consistency principle Polchinski's paradox Retrocausality Ring singularity Roman...
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    resulting in the reality that the traveller moves from. The Novikov self-consistency principle asserts that due to causality constraints, time travel to...
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  • paradoxes might be avoided using some constraint such as the Novikov self-consistency principle. They appear in some of the most important exact solutions...
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  • time cannot be changed through traveller actions as per the Novikov self-consistency principle; Paul Serene gives an example of trying to save a dead vagrant...
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    communication to Kip Thorne circa 1990, commenting on the Novikov self-consistency principle (in relation to sending objects or people through a traversable...
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  • appearance of Rufus. Film portal 1980s portal Deus ex machina Novikov self-consistency principle Time Squad Thompson, Anne (March 16, 1989). "Profiting from...
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    time travel remain self-consistent, i.e., one can visit the past but not change it, as in the Novikov self-consistency principle). Although he is keen...
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  • via her father's personal time machine. She also states the Novikov self-consistency principle, two decades before he formulated it. Mark and Julie part...
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    "Hitler-murder paradox", some science fiction stories follow the Novikov self-consistency principle, which holds that if time travel is possible, then changing...
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  • Maksutov telescope Igor Novikov, theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist, formulated the Novikov self-consistency principle in the theory of time travel...
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    equivalence principle is taken to follow from empirical consistency, later became known as "weak equivalence". A version of the equivalence principle consistent...
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  • published in print in Bifrost, #88 in October 2017. Novikov self-consistency principle, principle used in the novel to avoid temporal paradoxa One-electron...
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    951 Gaspra and 762 Pulcova Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, formulated the Novikov self-consistency principle, an important contribution to the theory of time...
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  • which features the influence for the episode "White Hole". Novikov self-consistency principle "British Sitcom Guide – Red Dwarf – Series 4". sitcom.co.uk...
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    motion of light source or observer. This is known as the principle of light constancy, or the principle of light speed invariance. The first postulate was first...
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  • the phrase "the set of all sets" is self-contradictory. This condradiction introduced a doubt on the consistency of all mathematics. With the introduction...
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  • early 20th century it was shaped by David Hilbert's program to prove the consistency of foundational theories. Results of Kurt Gödel, Gerhard Gentzen, and...
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  • fundamental particles, but would construct their interactions from self-consistency conditions on the S-matrix. The S-matrix approach was started by Werner...
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  • Theorem via Turing machines". Shtetl-Optimized. Retrieved 2 November 2022. Novikov, Pyotr S. (1955), "On the algorithmic unsolvability of the word problem...
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