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Ultimate Paradoxes of Time Travel

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We briefly present some paradoxes of time travel, and discuss their possible solutions. We also analyze the epistemological status of the Principle of Self-consistency.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía, C.C.5, 1894, Villa Elisa, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Gustavo E. Romero & Diego F. Torres

  2. Departamento de Fisica, UNLP, C.C. 67, 1900, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Diego F. Torres

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy

    Julián Chela-Flores

  2. Instituto de Estudios Avanzados (IDEA), Venezuela

    Julián Chela-Flores

  3. Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía (CONICET), Argentina

    Guillermo A. Lemarchand

  4. Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Guillermo A. Lemarchand

  5. Department of Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204-5934, USA

    John Oró

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Romero, G.E., Torres, D.F. (2000). Ultimate Paradoxes of Time Travel. In: Chela-Flores, J., Lemarchand, G.A., Oró, J. (eds) Astrobiology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4313-4_21

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