self-consistency
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The quality or state of being self-consistent.
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However, some philosophers and scientists believe that time travel into the past need not be logically impossible provided that there is no possibility of changing the past, as suggested, for example, by the Novikov self-consistency principle.
In other words, neither Einstein nor Langevin saw the story of the twins as constituting a challenge to the self-consistency of relativistic physics.
Humans also seem to exhibit a more complex set of motivations—though theoretically these could be explained as resulting from primordial instincts—including desires for belonging, self-image, self-consistency, truth, love, and control.
If one is inclined from the outset to ignore or discount the possibility of new physics, then one will regard self-consistency as a trivial principle.
It results in two self-consistency equations that must be solved numerically, the solutions of which are the three stable phases of the liquid crystal.
Novikov self-consistency principle The Novikov self-consistency principle expresses one view on how backwards time travel could be possible without a danger of paradoxes.