Check out Bill Nye's Book! http://amzn.to/15IHFON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/vsaucethree ***Click "SHOW MORE" for links*** "By His Bootstraps" short story from 1941 that deals with the problems...
========== Vsauce, I’m Jake and what are you doing
on the ground? Let’s get you standing up...there...you’relooking great. Actually since I have you here,
have you seen the film Interstellar? I watchedit recently and in the movie they use a wormhole,
a shortcut through space and time to travelmuch more quickly...ostensibly time traveling.
And that got me thinking about a complicatedpart of time travel, paradoxes. Like the bootstrap
paradox, also known as the Ontological Paradox,which has been used in things like the Ocarina
of Time, Time Splitters, Terminator, and Backto the Future. It’s when information or
objects are never really created, becausetheir existence starts by coming from the
future and ends by going to the past to becomethemselves… for example in the O...