The Bootstrap Paradox vs The Mirror Shard Escape

The Bootstrap Paradox vs The Mirror Shard Escape

The Bootstrap Paradox

John owns a time machine, he decides to go back in time and meet his musical hero. Once he arrives, he finds out his musical hero did not exist, and in fact it was he, whom wrote the music he loves.

Question: Where did the music originally come from?

Prose: he had always invented it.


The Mirror Shard Escape

Part 1
John owns a time machine, he decides to go back in time and meet his musical hero. Once he arrives, he finds his musical hero's parents, and accidentally kills him much earlier in his life, by injuring his parent/s. He recreates the music and publishes it under the name of his musical hero. He continues his existence, never returning to that time and place, for fear of disrupting what he put right. However, he copies one of the notes incorrectly, which leads to his time machine not existing. Time resets.

Part 2
John owns a time machine, he decides to go back in time and meet his musical hero. Once he arrives, he finds out his musical hero did not exist, and in fact it was he, whom wrote the music he loves.



This is The Clockwork Paradox used to escape The Bootstrap Paradox, and so called a new name, The Mirror Shard Escape.

Paradoxes are quite violent things, they pretend to be elegant self-contained engines, when they are more like as a black hole is to gravity, a paradox is to time.

Paradoxes CAN be escaped, but are so difficult given the conditions.