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Predestination is a 2014 Australian science fiction thriller film [4] written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. The film stars Ethan Hawke , Sarah Snook , and Noah Taylor , and is based on the 1959 short story " '— All You Zombies —' " by Robert A. Heinlein .
A bootstrap paradox, also known as an information loop, an information paradox, [6] an ontological paradox, [7] or a "predestination paradox" is a paradox of time travel that occurs when any event, such as an action, information, an object, or a person, ultimately causes itself, as a consequence of either retrocausality or time travel. [8] [9 ...
The time traveler's actions may be the cause of events in their own past though, which leads to the potential for circular causation, sometimes called a predestination paradox, [95] ontological paradox, [96] or bootstrap paradox. [96] [97] The term bootstrap paradox was popularized by Robert A. Heinlein's story "By His Bootstraps". [98]
Predestination paradox: Someone travels back in time to discover the cause of a famous fire. While in the building where the fire started, they accidentally knock over a kerosene lantern and cause a fire, the same fire that would inspire them, years later, to travel back in time.
I involved myself with recurrent themes that turn into paradox. The central paradox concerns the human vision of time. What about Paul's gift of prescience—the Presbyterian fixation? For the Delphic Oracle to perform, it must tangle itself in a web of predestination. Yet predestination negates surprises and, in fact, sets up a mathematically ...
The argument from free will, also called the paradox of free will or theological fatalism, ... Predestination, God's Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents, trans. M.M ...
All You Zombies—' " [a] is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was written in one day, July 11, 1958, and first published in the March 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction after being rejected by Playboy.
Floyd C. Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction said of "By His Bootstraps", "In 18 years I haven't seen its equal" as a temporal-paradox story. [4] Philosopher David Lewis considered "By His Bootstraps" and " '—All You Zombies— '" to be examples of "perfectly consistent" time travel stories. [5]