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Meaning of Polchinski's paradox | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

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A potential paradox serving as a comment on the Novikov self-consistency principle, in which a billiard ball, sent back in time through a wormhole, is launched at such an angle that, upon exiting the wormhole in the past, it collides with its earlier self, knocking it off course and preventing it from entering the wormhole in the first place.

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Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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