Editing Temporal paradox (section)

=== Emergent time and entropic reconfiguration ===
A recent proposed resolution argues that if time is not an inherent property of the universe but is instead [[emergent phenomena|emergent]] from the laws of [[entropy]], as some modern theories suggest,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Rovelli |first=Carlo |date=2009 |title=Forget time |journal=Foundations of Physics |volume=41 |issue=9 |pages=1475–1490 |arxiv=0903.3832 |bibcode=2011FoPh...41.1475R |doi=10.1007/s10701-011-9561-4 |s2cid=9891985}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Verlinde |first=Erik |date=2011 |title=On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton |journal=Journal of High Energy Physics |volume=2011 |issue=4 |page=29 |arxiv=1001.0785 |bibcode=2011JHEP...04..029V |doi=10.1007/JHEP04(2011)029 |s2cid=118622227}}</ref> then it presents a natural solution to the Grandfather Paradox.<ref>{{cite web |title=Resolving the Grandfather Paradox through Emergent Time |url=https://filmboards.com/t/Science/Resolving-the-Grandfather-Paradox-3561233/ |website=Filmboards |access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref> In this framework, "time travel" is reinterpreted not as movement along a linear continuum but as a reconfiguration of the present state of the universe to match a prior entropic configuration. Because the original chronological sequence—including events like the time traveler’s birth—remains preserved in the universe’s irreversible entropic progression, actions within the reconfigured state cannot alter the causal history that produced the traveler. This avoids paradoxes by treating time as a thermodynamic artifact rather than a mutable dimension.