The Paradox of Time Travel May Have Been Solved by an Undergrad

> The idea of fate means there’s no free will.

Determinism is quite cheerfully compatible with free will.

> “Say you traveled back in time, to stop COVID-19’s patient zero from being exposed to the virus. However, if you stopped that individual from becoming infected — that would eliminate the motivation for you to go back and stop the pandemic in the first place.

That's a cherry-picked example of negative feedback stability; it takes little imagination to see that it doesn't have to go that way; feedback can be unstable.

This is not new. I guess the math™ is , but I guess there is still debate on the subject sooo just click bait