Novikov self-consistency principle

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Novikov self-consistency principle

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