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Is it strange that I have a favourite paradox? It's an ontological paradox btw, also called a bootstrap paradox. Something that exists without a point of creation. For Doctor Who fans, the Easter Egg conversation in Blink is one. For non Doctor Who fans, here's an example:

A man comes across the plans to build a time machine. He builds it, and goes back in time, and ends up dropping the instructions somewhere, to where it is found by the previous him and completes the loop.
 
Is it strange that I have a favourite paradox? It's an ontological paradox btw, also called a bootstrap paradox. Something that exists without a point of creation. For Doctor Who fans, the Easter Egg conversation in Blink is one. For non Doctor Who fans, here's an example:

A man comes across the plans to build a time machine. He builds it, and goes back in time, and ends up dropping the instructions somewhere, to where it is found by the previous him and completes the loop.

I remember reading about ontological paradoxes on Wikipedia. :laughing:

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Is it strange that I have a favourite paradox? It's an ontological paradox btw, also called a bootstrap paradox. Something that exists without a point of creation. For Doctor Who fans, the Easter Egg conversation in Blink is one. For non Doctor Who fans, here's an example:

A man comes across the plans to build a time machine. He builds it, and goes back in time, and ends up dropping the instructions somewhere, to where it is found by the previous him and completes the loop.

In the 2007 episode "Blink", the Doctor records a message on film in 1969 in the form of half a conversation. The other half is filled in when Sally Sparrow views the film on DVD in 2007, which her friend Lawrence Nightingale transcribes. The full transcript, including the Doctor's portion, is eventually handed to the Doctor in 2008, but before he is sent back to 1969 from his subjective viewpoint, so he can use it in creating the message later. The contents of the conversation form a bootstrap paradox. The Doctor explains Sally's confusion by revealing that most people think of time like "a swift progression of cause to effect," when it's actually, "like a big ball of wibbely-wobbely, timey-whimey... stuff."
 
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