“The bootstrap paradox in time travel occurs when a piece of information that has no right to exist, nonetheless exists,” Seth Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts ...

The Bootstrap Paradox, first popularized by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein in his book By His Bootstraps, gets its name from the impossible idea of "pulling yourself up by the ...

While the predestination paradox concerns itself with people and their actions, the bootstrap paradox pertains to objects and notions caught in a time loop, with no discernible origin.

As the bootstrap paradox worked its way into physicists’ notebooks and blackboards, it was also making its mark on pop culture, with the two occasionally overlapping.