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polchinski's paradox

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: polchin-ski's -para-dox
IPA

39

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

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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.

Etymology

Devised by Joseph Polchinski, American physicist.

Questions

What does polchinski's paradox mean?: 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.
Where does polchinski's paradox come from?: Devised by Joseph Polchinski, American physicist.

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