Suppose I traveled backwards in time (theoretically possible under certain solutions to Einstein's relativity equations). Suppose I had memorized the entire text of Hamlet, then visited William Shakespeare before he wrote Hamlet. Suppose I then spoke out the text while he took dictation. And the rest was history -- he took credit for Hamlet himself, eventually I was born, and I memorized it.
In that case, who wrote Hamlet? I didn't -- all I did was memorize it. Shakespeare didn't -- all he did was take dictation. You might even say that the play Hamlet was an uncaused consequence of a time loop.
Could the universe be the same way? What if, in the far future, our remote descendants travel backwards in time to ignite the Big Bang?
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Circular reasoning.
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