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time paradox
[ tahym par-uh-doks ]
- Also called tem路por路al par路a路dox. (in science fiction) a hypothetical contradiction of cause-and-effect within a timeline that results from traveling back in time, as in the bootstrap paradox or the grandfather paradox.
- Sometimes par路a路dox of time. Physics, Thermodynamics. the contradiction between the concept of time in quantum physics, according to the theory of relativity, where processes are time-symmetric and reversible, and the concept of time in thermodynamics, according to the second law of thermodynamics, where processes have a direction and are irreversible.
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Film critic Jordan Hoffman tweeted that it was, 鈥渇ar more madcap than I expected. Really nailed what reading a 5-issue crossover comic book is like. Tons of Ezra Miller being zany and time paradox stuff. Nerds will lose their minds at the ending.鈥
What鈥檚 more, the character of Zurg isn鈥檛 all that much of a threat, as it turns out, and the big battle scene is ultimately a way to resolve a time paradox.
鈥淚f I was going by the book to make a time-travel film, 鈥楶etite Maman鈥 would have to be set in a very particular time and there would have to be a time paradox or a reasoning for how they could get back, which you would have to hide and then reveal,鈥 she said.
Especially with a story like that where there鈥檚 natural conflict because of this time paradox.
Heinlein could do it all, whether writing about a generation starship in 鈥淯niverse,鈥 playing with time paradox in 鈥淏y His Bootstraps鈥 or turning out the best juvenile sf novels ever, including my favorite, 鈥淐itizen of the Galaxy,鈥 which opens unforgettably: 鈥溾夆楲ot ninety-seven,鈥 the auctioneer announced.
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