eli5: What is the bootstrap Paradox?
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It’s when a person who travels back in time and introduces some knowledge that came from their past but the future of the time they traveled to. The information was apparently introduced by the person from the future, but how did they get it in the first place?
A simple example: Let’s say I go back in time and meet Beethoven before he writes his fifth symphony. I hang out with Beethoven, have a good time, and when I leave I forget to bring my copy of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony with me. Beethoven finds it instead and releases it as his own. If he got it from me, and I got it from him releasing it in the past, then where did it first come from? The story was no beginning. That’s the Bootstrap Paradox
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