Solution
Temporal paradox has been used to argue that time travel must be impossible, because it is capable of resulting in a paradox. Kip Thorne, however, said that none of the supposed paradoxes formulated in time travel stories can actually be formulated at a precise physical level: that is, any situation in a time travel story turns out to permit many consistent solutions.
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