The grandfather paradox is an example of a problem arising from the effect of time travel on causality. Here's how it works (or doesn't).

Here’s 15 much better examples of celebrity paradoxes. 1. In Stargate SG-1 , a reference is made to “MacGyvering” a situation in a scene with Richard Dean Anderson, who was of course, MacGyver.

German mathematician David Hilbert presented this supposed paradox during a 1925 lecture on infinity. The example illustrates how not all concepts can be transferred from finite to infinite cases ...

The three paradoxes that follow are some of the best-known examples from Ancient Greece. 1. The liar paradox “This sentence is false.” Philosophers call that the “liar sentence”.

I'm going to walk through the common example of Braess' paradox using figures and rephrasing the explanation from Wikipedia. The Situation: We have 4,000 drivers that want to go from START to END ...