Temporal Paradoxes

Temporal paradoxes arise when time travel or the concepts of time create logical contradictions. A classic example is the "grandfather paradox," where a time traveler goes back and prevents their grandfather from meeting their grandmother, potentially erasing the traveler's own existence. This creates a loop of cause and effect that defies logic—if the traveler never existed, how could they have traveled back in time? Such paradoxes challenge our understanding of time, causality, and the nature of reality, leading to intriguing questions in philosophy and physics about the consistency of events across time.