Bootstrap paradox

The Bootstrap paradox is a time travel scenario where an object or piece of information exists without a clear origin. For example, imagine a time traveler who goes back in time and gives Shakespeare a copy of his own plays. Shakespeare then publishes them, and later, the time traveler reads them and travels back to give them to Shakespeare again. In this loop, the plays have no true point of creation; they simply "bootstrap" themselves into existence. This paradox raises questions about causality and the nature of time, challenging our understanding of how events unfold in a linear timeline.